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Microsoft Cancels Windows 10's Sets Designed to Bring Tabs to All Apps?

Microsoft Cancels Windows 10's Sets Designed to Bring Tabs to All Apps? 381m

By Jamshed Avari | Updated: 22 April 2019 13:37 IST

Highlights

The Sets feature was dropped late last year but was expected to return
It was conceived to allow s to group documents, websites, and more
Individual programs might still get tabs if Sets is dropped for good

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Microsoft's Windows 10 development team seems to have abandoned the implementation of Sets, a system-wide feature that was promised to not only bring tabs to most Windows 10 applications, but also let s create multiple tabs for different programs within the same window. The feature was supposed to bring a whole new paradigm to the Windows desktop, which would have represented a major change to how the world's most popular desktop operating system is used. Windows s have been clamouring for tabs at least in Windows Explorer, and the Sets feature would have been far more powerful. 54v9

The concept was help people group activities by task and purpose. The company noted at the time that the name "Sets" was not final and might change upon release. Microsoft began rolling the feature out to small numbers of Windows Insider beta testers in what was described as a "controlled study" to gather .

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Now, Microsoft senior product manager Rich Turner has tweeted that the feature has been dropped entirely. In response to a question on Twitter, Turner who works on the Windows PowerShell Console, has stated that "The shell-provided tab experience is no more", referring to the system-wide Windows Sets feature. He went on to state that there is still an effort in progress to add tabs to PowerShell, which might look and behave more like the tabs in other programs such as Web browsers.

The statement also leaves some hope that tabs will come at least to Windows Explorer in Windows 10, which has been a huge demand from Windows power s for a long time. Microsoft seems to have resisted due to the potential for confusion, but it did take time for multiple virtual desktops to become a native Windows feature, so there could still be hope.

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