April 30, Microsoft officially introduced the spring update of the operating system Windows 10, In addition to eliminating critical errors, it has many new convenient features.

Automatic notification blocking In the spring update of Windows 10, the Focus Assist function appeared, which automatically blocks notifications when they are least needed by the user. Focus Assist is activated during the launch of video games, as well as in the presentation mode, when notifications of new messages or messages in the messenger can be seen by outsiders.

In Focus Assist, you can configure exceptions for individual programs or messages from specific people - messages from them will be displayed regardless of what the user is doing.

Until now, this function was called Quiet Hours and allowed manually for a while to turn off notifications or set the clock in which notifications will not arrive.

Timeline The Timeline feature in the spring update of Windows 10 allows you to view all the documents that you worked with in the last 30 days, but you can not find them - or remember which device they were working with. Timeline allows you to not only find documents, but also viewed pages, and synchronizes between devices that use one of the accounts in Microsoft services or the browser Edge.

Sound management First, the Microsoft Edge browser has learned to turn off the sound in one specific tab by clicking on the speaker icon on it. This function is already available in all modern browsers, in the spring update it was the turn to Edge.

In addition, the updated Windows 10 has the ability to customize the sound in each application separately. For example, a media player can be made to work loudly and through large speakers, and the browser - only through the headphones and quietly.

Fast file transfer In the spring update of Windows 10 appeared the function of Sharing, which allows you to share any files between computers that are near. In fact, this is an analog of Apple's AirDrop function. As in Mac OS X, in Windows 10 you can configure who has the right to send files to your computer: anyone, only you from another device or a limited number of contacts.

By default, the function is off. Like AirDrop, the technology works via Bluetooth. This wireless protocol concerns another small update in Windows 10: now the operating system quickly picks up communication with Bluetooth-enabled devices.

You can update right now Microsoft rolls out regular spring and autumn updates gradually around the world, and some users will receive an offer to update only in a few weeks.

But there is an opportunity to install it right now using the Update Assistant utility on the Microsoft website. For the general public, the update will be available after May 8. Initially, the update should have been released on April 10, but it was postponed after it detected several critical errors.