

Microsoft picked my five most popular contacts, some of which I’ve obscured for privacy’s sake. Ideally, My People would collect all the different ways of reaching your friends and put them all under your thumb, but that’s a future that hasn’t yet arrived.

It’s a great concept, though only partially realized. My People focuses those apps on just three friends. With Mail, you can send email to anyone in the world, or chat via Skype with its millions of users. Think of My People as Skype and Mail, turned on their heads. And the best feature is how they can respond: “Shoulder taps” pop up emoji right from your taskbar, so that your friend can wave hello. Just as you might stop by for a chat, My People allows you to quickly Skype or email them-and just them-all from a single button on your taskbar. (Note: We’ve tested it as part of Windows 10’s Insider Program, so Microsoft may still be ironing out any small bugs we experienced.) It allows you to select your three best friends and symbolically place them near you, via icons in the taskbar. My People is a new feature within the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Windows 10’s My People feature addresses a need some of us have, at least some of the time: a simple reminder that our friends are thinking about us.
