This functionality will extend to apps on phones too, including Android, iOS, and Windows 10 Mobile. With the Family Desktop, Family Enabled Apps will take advantage of the shared account and do similar things to that of the Calendar app as shown in the above example. This functionality will extend to apps on phones too - including iPhone, Android and Windows 10 Mobile. Then, once that particular user is done, they can sign off, hiding all their private calendar appointments, yet keeping the family shared appointments there and readily available for another family member to view.
The magic here is whichever user is using the PC can authenticate themselves with Windows Hello, and see their own private calendar events in addition to what's shared with the family. In the case of calendar appointments, a member of the "Bowden" family can open up the Calendar app and see all the appointments that have been shared with the family. That account can see everything the 'family' is supposed to see, such as specific apps, calendar appointments, to-do's, and more. Each user will have their own account of course, but there will also be a "family account" that is always logged in. So for example, the "Bowden" family might have a shared PC that four people use.
With Home Hub, a PC can be unlocked without a password, yet still provide access to the same family data, including apps, documents, bookmarks and more that has been shared with a family. This method of sharing a PC is considered clunky internally at Microsoft, and with Home Hub the company aims to improve this experience significantly. There's also a guest account that's simply a standard user without a password that anyone can use. With Windows as it currently stands, a shared family PC is confined to individual accounts that individual users must switch between to gain access and use their shared PC.
By introducing new sharing features, new user interfaces, always-listening Cortana and apps that take advantage of new APIs, Home Hub becomes a compelling competitor to other smart assistants on the market. Microsoft's end goal with Home Hub is to make shared PCs much more communal and helpful for multiple people that have to use them. Home Hub isn't a dedicated device - it's just the software on your PC, no additional hardware requiredĪdding a screen to these smart devices makes these things so much more approachable and useful, especially to families.
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