Stick, stick, sticky, round-up
Well done, Squirrels, you’ve won the wobbly software badge. Now, what else did you get up to last week?
The tanks of Microsoft’s Sticky Notes app appear to be sidling up to the lawns of OneNote with Redmond’s Jen Gentleman teasing Windows Insiders with the prospect of images in the Post-It emulator.
Sticky Notes, which synchronises over devices connected to a given Microsoft account, allows users to festoon their screens with reminders, replete with font effects and multiple colours. It now appears that images are next. Windows Insiders will get first dibs on the new functionality before the update becomes widely available.
Casual users of OneNote may find Sticky Notes a simpler experience, although Gentleman is quick to point out that OneNote is a better fit for projects while Sticky Notes is just something to use instead of, er, an actual physical sticky note.
One can but hope the product is in use throughout the bowels of Redmond, urging devs to stop writing buggy code and management to hire more testers plastered over every Windows 10 desktop.
Thanksgiving may have curtailed a fresh release of next year’s Windows 10 (aka 19H1), but Microsoft still managed to make available the first public version of the next Windows Server.
The release, which will be on the Semi-Annual channel (rather than the Long Term Servicing Channel of Windows Server 2019), is due to ship in spring, although Microsoft is tight-lipped as to what will actually be in it. The release notes are certainly on the light to non-existent side.
