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Microsoft Removes 'Sets' Tabbed Windows Feature From Next Release (groovypost.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the still-in-development dept.

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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  1. Sad they're getting even worse at developing... by greenwow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    software. They can't even add a simple feature to the most commonly used tool on Windows. You'd think at least one team there could be productive considering how siloed they are. My best friend from high school got a job with them when their HQ was in Bellevue (think that was in 1980) and many more people I know have worked there over the years, and they've all complained about things never improving. You'd think by chance some group would figure-out how to make better software then others would copy what they're doing.

    1. Re:Sad they're getting even worse at developing... by The123king · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

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  2. Re:Anticipated by ArchieBunker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My biggest gripe is updates going on in the background and thrashing the hard drive for a few hours.

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  3. Stop changing the UI by joe_frisch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Stop, please just stop.

    Don't move buttons around. Don't add weird auto-width-changing scroll bars. I don't care how much time all these things might in theory save in the future, but if you change the UI too frequently, all that is lost to the reduction in efficiency when people try to figure out how to do the things that they used to do.

    1. Re:Stop changing the UI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.