- Windows 11 has a curriculum function in test compilations
- For now it is only for Spotify, but more developers will join on time
- If you are listening to a track on your Android phone, you can resume that playback on your Windows 11 PC without problems
Windows 11 is obtaining a new skill by which the desktop operating system will allow you to resume what you were doing previously in an application on your Android phone.
This is only available in the tests for now, in Windows 11 Preview is built in the DEV and Beta channels, and although it will eventually reach a range of applications, to start it only works with Spotify.
As Microsoft explains in a blog post, the way the function works is as follows: let’s say you are listening to a playlist or podcast on Spotify on your smartphone, and stop it, then go to your desktop PC.
When I activate Windows 11, you will see a ‘curriculum alert’ appear from your taskbar at the bottom of the screen, letting you know that you can continue your spotify listening on the PC. Simply click on that alert, and the Spotify application will open, continuing playback exactly where you left on your Android smartphone.
Microsoft reminds us that we will need that the Spotify application is installed on the PC and registered in the same account as the one that runs on the smartphone, as expected. If you do not have Spotify installed on Windows 11, a button will appear to install the software from the Microsoft store, then you just have to log in to your Spotify account.
In addition, you must have the link to the Windows application that runs on your smartphone and have access to your phone enabled on your Windows 11 PC, according to Microsoft’s instructions in its blog post.
Analysis: a great addition, but Microsoft has really taken its time
This is essentially Microsoft’s taking on Apple’s transfer function, and it seems to be a simplified and useful ability that I am anxious to see the debut in Windows 11. However, its revelation is not a surprise, however, since Microsoft accidentally gave us an idea of ​​functionality in a pregnant construction session earlier this year, whose video was quick to eliminate this. It worked almost exactly the same as now we see in the tests (with Spotify also using in this early demonstration).
The technical name of this trick is the curriculum of cross -devices and, hopefully, several software developers will be on board support for this: those that have applications available both in Windows 11 and Android, of course. Microsoft will undoubtedly be clicking on some of the greatest names that exist, and in addition to Spotify we have also heard that WhatsApp could be online for this treatment.
Clearly, the curriculum function will also try to boost the facilities of the Microsoft store, which will not harm the traffic there, something that the company has been working to improve lately.
While the resumption of Android applications in Windows 11 is clearly a great characteristic, and it is good to see it incoming, the main question here is why Microsoft has taken so long to implement this?
