MS Windows Priority!
Us windows (10) user are really badly stuck for a good prototyping tool. It is awful to see, once again, that windows users of XD are trailing Mac users in terms of functionality!
Sketchapp have ignored Windows users, which IMHO is going to be the eventual cause of their demise as most design/dev teams use a mix of OSs in house.
I looked at Adobe XD last year and again over the past day. Windows users are still being treated as second class users to Mac users.
Please speed up or Windows development! Features of both OSs should be released simultaneously!
It’s getting to the point where, I’m going to have to get a Mini Mac and use the Sketch App.
Hi, all-
Apologies for the delay, but we are definitely treating Windows as a first class citizen in the XD ecosystem. With the exception of some UWP platform limitations (specifically: preview recording, USB tethered mobile preview, and some font stuff), we’re at feature alignment and have committed to releasing all new features on Mac and Windows. We’re also investing in bringing some Windows-only features in the future, so stay tuned for that!
I’m marking this feature as closed.
-Elaine
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Eric Ratshili commented
I like XD and it would be good to see more functionality just like they did on Mac OS. My feature request is to set default font family on the entire project
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David Knell commented
The Mac version has actually not had a significant update in over a year. The releases are almost completely focused on bringing the Windows version up to speed. Adobe is working on it.
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Ian Armstrong commented
Okay so a bit of casual background information on this.
Sketch doesn't support Windows because it's traditionally a pain to develop creative software on. Mac, on the other hand, has a ton of useful libraries baked right into the OS. All of that started to change with the Anniversary Edition (build 1607) of Windows 10, followed by the recent Creators Edition (1703) update and to be followed by a subsequent Creator's Edition update this Fall.
You'll note in the XD requirements that at least build 1607 is required in order to run the software.
Again this is not coincidence, nor is it unintentional.
Windows development is trailing behind Mac development because Windows didn't release an OS with media creation in mind until August 2nd, 2016.
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Adrien commented
sadly Adobe XD is coming very too late... please Adobe, don't less Sketch being the lead of prototype UI/UX software design...