Dropbox’s new Windows 10 app shows the highs and lows of the platform

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Dropbox has updated its Windows 10 app. It's now a Universal Windows Platform app, with a mobile version promised soon, and it takes advantage of a number of features new to Windows 10 that weren't possible for Windows Store apps in Windows 8.

The Dropbox app allows you to (optionally) specify a passcode that has to be entered before it'll show your files, and this leads to its more exciting new feature: Windows Hello integration. While Windows Hello is so far mainly used for biometric authentication—the facial recognition used by the Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book, or fingerprint recognition in a range of laptops—that's not the full extent of it. There's a corresponding API that allows applications on Windows to tap in to the same biometric infrastructure. Instead of a four-digit PIN to reveal your files, the Dropbox app lets you use your face or finger.

Actionable notification. (credit: Microsoft)

It also has interactive notifications for invitations to shared folders that allow those invitations to be accepted or rejected from the notification itself.

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