Apple brings extra of its companies, together with iCloud and Apple Music, to Microsoft platforms • TechCrunch

Throughout a Floor-focused occasion this morning, Microsoft introduced that it’s integrating Apple’s iCloud storage service with the Images app in Home windows 11. After putting in the iCloud for Home windows app from the Microsoft Retailer and selecting to sync iCloud, iPhone customers with Home windows units will have the ability to see their iPhone pictures and movies inside Images.

Home windows customers collaborating in Microsoft’s Home windows Insiders program can get the most recent iCloud for Home windows app, which permits the combination, beginning at present.

“For the previous couple of years, Home windows prospects who’ve Android telephones have skilled that promise with integration throughout messaging, calling and pictures on to their Home windows PC, bringing the 2 most vital units of their lives nearer collectively,” CNET quoted Microsoft as saying. “We’re making it simpler than ever for patrons to entry their iPhone pictures and the leisure they love from Apple on their Xbox and Home windows units.”

In a associated improvement, Apple introduced that it’s bringing first-party streaming companies together with Apple Music and Apple TV for extra Microsoft platforms. Apple Music will come to Xbox consoles beginning at present, and Apple Music and the Apple TV app will launch on Home windows someday subsequent 12 months.

The brand new Apple service tie-ins on Home windows and Xbox comply with the launch of Apple TV on Xbox consoles practically two years in the past. It’s been a very long time coming, however hybrid Home windows-iOS households will little question recognize the tighter integration.