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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."
Not here, I barely even remember hearing about it, and can't figure out what it would be good for. I am, however, anticipating further improvements to the Windows Linux subsystem.
by who? any time I see a client with a windows 10 workstation. I shake my head and say "to bad you should have stayed with windows 7 pro"
Just my 2 cents ;)
10's UI is fine, for the most part. It is not all that different from 7 with some minor changes. Windows 10 has a few features that annoy me though.
1. Advertisements/crapware/junk. Don't include crap. Don't put little things to interact with the user for stupid reasons.
2. Telemetry.
3. Cloud drive storage by default.
4. Microsoft logins by default.
5. Metro stuff, which has a separate configuration as near as I can tell. Just fix theming. Any time you have a foreground color, for whatever reason, you should have a background color specifiable. (That is an old complaint.)
6. Search internet by default. Cortana by default.
7. Get hardware manufacturers to make ssds with rock solid super fast hardware encryption with business class security. Seriously, just that alone would vastly improve performance. (Maybe its out there somewhere, but my company evidently doesn't have it.)
My biggest gripe is updates going on in the background and thrashing the hard drive for a few hours.
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I was wondering when "Trump is Literal Hitler" would evolve into "Trump is Literal Satan". The 'Hitler' thing has a 3 year track record of total failure, and Satan is just about the only place left to escalate to.
(Of course this is exactly why Trump prodded the media into going full-"Hitler" from the moment he announced. Once he survived that, there was nothing left that the media could ever do to damage him.)
This is some grade A bullshit. Even if you are 'significantly better' you come off as a pompous ass when you mock them.
Nah, if they stopped doing this sort of pointless deckchair shuffling and focussed on the OS core we'd have, what, XP++? I mean sure the reliability would be vastly improved over anything we have now, it would be blisteringly fast from decades of optimisation, security would be better, and all of the settings would still be neatly filed away in control panel rather than vomitted all over the damn place, but it wouldn't be shiny, synergistic, dynamic, reactive, proactive, leading edge, bleeding edge or even at the coal-face... and we all know that that's what really matters.
I fail to see how this is a new development for Microsoft. Everything's been going to shit since about 2007. Microsoft's biggest mistake was not putting their hands up and saying "Windows 8 was a mistake, we're going to bury it, and release a version of Windows that works". Instead, we got Windows 10, which is probably more broken and glitchy than Vista.
If you gave me a choice between a printer and a giraffe with explosive diarrhoea, i'll get my ladder and my raincoat