Microsoft Whiteboard receives Surface Slim Pen 2 support, new features, and a UI overhaul

Microsoft Whiteboard fans, good news: MS just delivered a big content drop containing all sorts of goodies for Whiteboard, including a UI overhaul and a bevy of new features.

The visual collaboration tool at present features improved functionality to back upwardly its clean artful, meaning information technology'll be easier to locate what functions you want when yous want them. The mobile layout has also been touched upward to ensure you have the maximum corporeality of screen real estate available to you whenever possible.

The new Whiteboard update also comes jam-packed with over 40 fresh Whiteboard templates optimized for brainstorming, trouble-solving, and more. A dozen new note grids and sticky notes are also on offer, featuring new color options with which to liven up your whiteboarding activities.

You can now also react in Whiteboard, in the effect yous just want to plop a gilt star or rainbow on someone'due south content to communicate that they're doing a expert chore.

New pen and highlighter color choices are in the app also. These aren't just your standard blues or greens; there are too wacky options in at that place such equally "galaxy ink." And on the ink topic, yous can now accept Whiteboard make arrows and directly lines for yous (Microsoft knows information technology's hard for some people to draw those).

Simply that's not all. "When inking on the new Surface Pro 8 or Surface Studio laptop running Windows xi, with the new Surface Slim Pen 2, you can now experience slight vibrations that brand writing and drawing feel more realistic," Microsoft says in its weblog post announcing the Whiteboard updates. "Pens, highlighters, and laser pointers will all have a unique continuous vibration as you movement your pen across the canvass, giving you a more than natural inking experience."

If you want an app to test out the haptics on your new Surface Slim Pen two, you know where to go.

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