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Microsoft Timeline app lets you pick up your PC work on Apple or Android phones

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People using business applications on their Apple and Android phones should soon be able to go to any of their other devices and pick up where they left off.

At its annual Build developer conference here in Seattle, Microsoft said the Timeline feature it just added to Windows would soon be available on Android and iOS phones, allowing phone users to scroll or search through a history of all the things they've been doing on their PC or on their phone, going back 30 days, and then continue those tasks on any other device that has the Timeline feature.

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John Davidson is an award-winning columnist, reviewer, and senior writer based in Sydney and in the Digital Life Laboratories, from where he writes about personal technology. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jdavidson@afr.com

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