New Windows 11 build boasts inbox updates and UI tweaks
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2022/03/10/microsoft_windows_11_insider_tabs/
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As well as new and updated inbox apps, [2]Build 22572 features more user interface tweaks. This time it was the turn of tabs in File Explorer.
File Explorer tabs are back! (Windows 11 22572, feature 34370472) [3]pic.twitter.com/U3t10Affdq — Rafael Rivera (@WithinRafael) [4]March 9, 2022
Users enabling the feature would be forgiven for experiencing a jolt of déjà vu. After all, didn't the company tinker with something called "Sets" back in the day, aimed at grouping applications together, before [5]yanking the poor thing from Windows 10 when it all got a bit too complicated?
The idea, it seems, has never really gone away. Tabs in browsers are commonplace nowadays and [6]Microsoft's foray into open-source terminal emulator territory with Windows Terminal is a handy example of how useful tabs can be.
It looks very much like Windows 11's File Explorer will be the next to receive the tabbed treatment, although this being a Dev Channel release there is no guarantee the code will ever see the light of day.
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Other updates include the addition of Clipchamp ( [8]acquired by Microsoft last year) as an inbox video-editing application, and the Microsoft Family app for Windows 11 Home edition users.
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The latter permits the setting of parental controls and the monitoring of screen time activity on Windows, Xbox, and Android. The Family Safety app arrived [11]last May , but this time it's the Windows 11 inbox apps that Microsoft has its eye on.
[12]Dell opts out of Microsoft's Pluton security for Windows
[13]AMD confirms Ryzen chips' stuttering performance on Windows 10, 11
[14]Microsoft pulls MSIX discussions into Windows Tech Community
[15]Leaked stolen Nvidia key can sign Windows malware
There is also a new Microsoft Defender preview for US users and a warning that an update to the Windows 11 Search is inbound. The new feature will be called "Search Highlights" and "will highlight interesting moments in time from the world around you and in your organization."
"The search box in Start and Search will periodically update with content, including fun illustrations, that help you discover more, be connected, and stay productive," explained Microsoft. The clamoring for the feature must have been deafening.
Windows 10 users will also be getting the new functionality. Far be it from us to wonder if all that space might also feature the odd bit of sponsored content. Even if that does end up being the case, the "Search Highlights" function can be toggled on and off from within Windows' privacy and security settings.
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Also in the download is an updated design for the Print Queue to fit in better with Windows 11's UI cues, Fluent icons for Quick Assist and Windows Sandbox, and the dropping of "Windows" from Windows Terminal. It's now just called "Terminal" in the Start Menu. ®
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[1] https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2022/03/09/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22572/
[2] https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2022/03/09/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22572/
[3] https://t.co/U3t10Affdq
[4] https://twitter.com/WithinRafael/status/1501675774847246337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2018/06/28/sets_scrapped_from_windows_10/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/15/windows_terminal_default/
[7] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/oses&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2Yiout9QtjtQ1AbHwXlxFtgAAAMw&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[8] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/09/07/microsoft-acquires-clipchamp-to-empower-creators/
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[11] https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/12/microsoft_family_safety/
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/09/dell_pluton_microsoft/
[13] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/08/amd_stutter/
[14] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/07/msix/
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As long as the start button doesn't start jumping up and down to get my attention when there's something new* I'll continue to remain productive by not clicking on it and just get on with my work instead.
*Dear Microsoft, this is not a feature request.
Ah yes. Remember some of the advertising for Office XP back when Microsoft had at least something of a sense of humour and listened to the majority of the userbase?
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWpR3VYmNDY
ie; Office eXcluded Paperclip. Sadly this version will probably build upon the pioneering work of Microsoft Bob and Clippy to produce something capable of delivering greatly increased levels of frustration and annoyance.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWpR3VYmNDY
"The idea, it seems, has never really gone away"
Of course not. Borkzilla has had so few ideas that it keeps trying to shoehorn the ones it has had into everything it churns out.
Re: "The idea, it seems, has never really gone away"
With such a diversity of user types using Windows, a feature that seems useless to one will be welcome to another. Linux is more concentrated towards a particular type of user and can usually stay within a known operational paradigm to keep most of them happy.
Re: "The idea, it seems, has never really gone away"
" Linux is more concentrated towards a particular type of user and can usually stay within a known operational paradigm to keep most of them happy. "
Linux as a kernel sits underneath a lot of different distros and UIs to cater for a lot of different types of user.
Re: "The idea, it seems, has never really gone away"
You're not really familiar with Linux are you?
Reading TFA - tabs in the file manager, a tabbed terminal emulator - Windows sounds to be getting more like KDE everyday. After all, it caught up with multiple workspaces some time ago. It does need a much better start menu, however.
OTOH, because Linux has such a diversity of user types it has DEs offering a very different user experience - Gnome for one and I believe even Unity (the Ubuntu app-oriented DE) is being kept alive as a community project. There are a few DEs even more minimalist than Gnome and, of course, there's always the option of a straight terminal based set-up.
Now explain to me how the one and only, what Redmond decrees, one size fits all approach of Windows caters to this diversity of Windows users you told us about.
Tabs inside windows, because windows flat UI is garbage...
But nooo, sticky plaster on top of sticky plaster.
I can definitely see the uses for tabs in File Explorer as opposed to multiple new windows, assuming it's less of a memory hogg than opening multiple windows was.
I fondly recall having to tell a user he wasn't getting a shiny new laptop with double the memory of everyone else just because he liked to have 12-15 file explorer windows open and his sytem ground to halt when he did. Perhaps getting to tell would be better than having to tell, this particular user logged the same complaint about performance once a month and was told every time including by his own and my head of department that he wasn't getting special equipment because of the way he liked to work.
tabs
Let's hope if there is a tabbed explorer window that there is - unlike on taskbar - a 'never combine' option.
Re: tabs
The lack of a "never combine" option is one of the primary reasons I will never willingly upgrade to Windows 11. It's incredible that someone seriously proposed that as a "feature", and criminal that the proposal was accepted.
Re: tabs
Also the insistence of Windows 11 to have the task bar across the bottom of the screen!
Tabs are bullshit
There's quite a few times when I need to put 2 windows side-by-side (sort of) for whatever reason, like "wait, why aren't the tag IDs the same on these pages?"
The "you can see this window OR this window" stuff is bullshit. The current Edge crap of "you WILL open a new window in a tab, not an actual new window" is just as irritating.
"Search Highlights" and "will highlight interesting moments in time from the world around you and in your organization."
"Search Highlights" and "will highlight what Microsoft considers interesting moments in time from the world around you and in your organization but will, in all reality will be as useful as targeted advertising*"
TFTFY
*In other words, effing useless.
"The search box in Start and Search will periodically update with content, including fun illustrations, that help you discover more, be connected, and stay productive,"
Ah, paperclip Mk II