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Microsoft Sees the Future of Windows 10 as Sets, Ditching Windows For a Tabbed App Interface (pcworld.com)

Posted by msmash on from the up-next dept.

Microsoft said Tuesday that it plans to overhaul Windows 10, with a browser-like, tabbed application view dubbed "Sets" that groups apps and files by project. From a report: Think of Sets as a mashup of existing and emerging Windows 10 technologies. Take Windows Explorer and the little-used Task View within Windows 10, mix in the newer "Pick up where you left off" and "Timeline" features, and wrap it all into a single-window experience. The idea is that every task requires a set of apps -- Mail, a browser, PowerPoint, even Win32 apps like Photoshop -- and those apps will be optionally organized as tabs along a single window. But that's not all. Microsoft knows that one of the most difficult things to remember isn't what you were working on a week or so ago -- browser histories help with that. It's remembering all of the associated apps and documents that went with it: a particular PowerPoint document, that budget spreadsheet, the context an Edge tab provided. The idea is that the delayed Timeline feature will eventually group and associate all of these into a Set, so that when you open one, Windows will suggest the others, too.

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  1. Haha by ArchieBunker · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean like this? https://d2.alternativeto.net/d...

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  2. Can they let me move the tabs to the bottom? by rsilvergun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe let me customize the tab bar with some quick access buttons. Make one of the icons the Windows logo. Then put a clock on the bar, and make it blue. And add some more quick access icons next to the clock. Oh, and make all the tabs icons so I can fit a lot of them on the screen. It'll really be the future.

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    1. Re:Can they let me move the tabs to the bottom? by apoc.famine · · Score: 4, Funny

      A major issue is that current aspect ratios make vertical space really valuable. Get my tabs and toolbars off the top and bottom of the screen and put them on the side, so I have more vertical space to work with.

      Monitors are already far too wide to comfortably read edge-to-edge text. Use that wasted space and give me a few more lines vertically! That'd be innovative! (Cough, ubuntu, cough.)

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  3. Re:WTF? by Entropius · · Score: 4, Funny

    INTERN~1 was easily the worst browser of its era...

  4. Re:... the context an Edge tab provided ... by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... when the fuck did that ever happen?

    Once, when it showed me this: Download Firefox

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  5. 2560x1080 by nctritech · · Score: 4, Funny

    I did not buy a fucking 2560x1080 monitor to have one thing on the screen at all times. Go back to Mars, Microsoft.

  6. Ah, the mating cry of the "UX expert" by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 5, Funny

    "You know how to use it! We have to change that immediately!"