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Microsoft Removes 'Sets' Tabbed Windows Feature From Next Release (groovypost.com)
The much-anticipated Sets feature has been pulled from the newest Windows 10 Redstone 5 build and there's no word when it will return. As groovyPost reports, "The Sets feature is a tabbed-windows experience that lets you group together different apps on your desktop." It's like having different tabs open in your browser, but for apps and File Explorer. From the report: Details on why it was removed and when it will come back have been vague. Microsoft made the announcement about Sets in [yesterday's] blog post about preview build 17704: "Thank you for your continued support of testing Sets. We continue to receive valuable feedback from you as we develop this feature helping to ensure we deliver the best possible experience once it's ready for release. Starting with this build, we're taking Sets offline to continue making it great. Based on your feedback, some of the things we're focusing on include improvements to the visual design and continuing to better integrate Office and Microsoft Edge into Sets to enhance workflow. If you have been testing Sets, you will no longer see it as of today's build, however, Sets will return in a future WIP flight. Thanks again for your feedback."
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You are correct about that. We buy only Dell since 1997 and keep track of support tickets by service tag. Five years ago we averaged one ticket per laptop just under every three months. IIRC, in 2006 we were at about one ticket every two months with XP so Microsoft was getting better. So far this year with Dell Precision 5520 laptops with Windows 10, we're averaging more than one ticket per laptop per month. We've increased our It staff by 20% but even that isn't enough to keep up with all of the problems with Windows updates.
They're under the mistaken impression that they have market dominance and can steer where things go - so they feel capable of disregarding user opinions on things under the assumption "they'll use what they're given." Combine that with the notion that they missed out on the web and never really had a product to begin with (they've always been a shop that muscles or buys out competition with an internal team of developers barely sufficient to stitch together a bunch of disparate code they've acquired - which really puts the GitHub acquisition into perspective if you stop to think about it,) and you end up with a push toward the cloud and getting in on this sweet user data collection industry - especially since the desktop operating system they produced effectively became feature-complete at Windows 7 and they need to get people onto subscriptions to keep any revenue whatsoever flowing in. In all honesty the way things are going once Linux starts seriously (not Ubuntu) catering to desktop users and puts out a development suite comparable to Visual Studio in ease of use they will have actual problems (the one thing they've gotten dead-right over the years is "developers developers developers" - they make shit but they cater to developers so they effectively mastered crowdsourcing before anyone else and locked people in with a community of strong applications which far outstrip any other platform for desktop users in personal or business settings.) Moral of the story: of course they want cheap incompetent H1b's - they have entire buildings full of lawyers, they aren't a software company, they're a sales/marketing/rebranding/M&A company which targets the software industry - they need the bare minimum competency to spaghetti shit together without their developers reaching a point in competency where they become mission critical and start demanding raises.