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Windows Central
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Sean Endicott

Windows 11's "Handoff" clone is official, and it works with iOS or Android

An iPhone resting on top of a Surface PC showing the Microsoft logo.

Windows 11 is about to copy an excellent feature from the Apple ecosystem. Soon, you'll be able to click a notification on your PC to continue working on a document you edited or viewed on your phone recently. The feature has actually been in testing among Windows Insiders for a while, but Microsoft did not document the feature with its current name until quite recently with the release of Windows 11 Build 27788 to the Canary Channel.

There are two sizeable updates in this build of Windows 11. Build 27788 is the first to include a preview of Windows MIDI Services, which is a rewrite of MIDI on Windows. The core MIDI protocol has not seen a major update since 1983. MIDI 2.0 is much more modern and provides musicians greater control than the original version. Following the update, Windows 11 can work with MIDI 2.0 and modernizes MIDI 1.0.

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