Microsoft is making some bold promises with Story Remix, its recently announced app for the Windows 10 Fall Creators update. Together with the company's deep learning technology, it can automatically craft your photos and videos into short films. Story Remix resembles Apple Clips and Google's Photo Assistant, but it goes a bit farther with the ability to analyze everything on a pixel level-basis to detect people, objects and the overall setting. If it works as advertised, it could be a transformational app for consumers fed up with their ever-growing libraries of digital media. It's the latest attempt by Microsoft to make your life easier by predicting what you want.

A complement to the OneDrive on Demand feature coming in the Fall Creators Update, Microsoft's also adding offline folder support to the OneDrive mobile apps. If you download a folder and make changes while you're offline, they'll be uploaded to the cloud the next time your device connects to the Internet. You don't need to wait to start using this, though. OneDrive offline folders are already available for Android to Office 365 Personal and Home subscribers and OneDrive business accounts, with iOS support slated to roll out in "the next few months." Just click the Parachute icon to save a folder offline.

Microsoft's showcasing the power of universal apps, machine learning, and the Microsoft ecosystem with Story Remix, an intriguing new app that helps you create personalized videos quickly and easily. Story Remix intelligently pulls from your collection of videos and images to create highlight videos of events on the fly, or you can start a new album of your own. So far, so blah--Google Photos already does that. But Story Remix shakes things up with powerful editing tools and integration with Microsoft's Remix 3D service to add "mixed reality" digital images and animations to your projects. It looks remarkably simple and surprisingly powerful.