Microsoft Cloud Clipboard ups your copy-and-paste game
New features include the ability to save multiple items and paste to different devices.
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Joe Belfiore on stage at Microsoft Build.
Microsoft could soon be making good old copy-and-paste a lot more versatile.
On the heels of its Build developers conference earlier this week, Microsoft VP of Operating Systems Joe Belfiore tweeted out:
Well, what a coincidence! I got some questions about Cloud Clipboard yesterday-- and this showed up sooner than I expected! :) Take a look at what's coming for insiders when you hit WINDOWS-V... pic.twitter.com/H2wod67CkA
— Joe Belfiore (@joebelfiore) May 9, 2018
The Cloud Clipboard feature allows Windows 10 users to synch their clipboards -- you know, whatever you copy or cut to paste later -- to different devices, expected to include other PCs running Windows 10, as well as Android and iOS phones and other devices. Also included is a history of what you copied before.
To get the options pictured in Belfiore's tweet, you hit the key combination Windows and V, a variation of the standard paste command of Control and V.
The new clipboard is now available to developers in a new insider preview build of Windows 10.
The feature was originally teased at the 2017 Microsoft build conference but never appeared.
