Is Microsoft finally burying the sets tested in previous Insider Previews of Windows 10? Now we have a semi-officially confirmation of the farewell to this feature..
Sets were the attempt from Microsoft, to combine several applications under one name in one window and run them in tabs. I never really used this feature in Insider Previews. If I understood Rich Tuner’s blog post correctly, this feature was tested in som Insider Previews of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update – for example in the Powershell console. But later Microsoft has removed the feature from the Insider Previews and it didn’t make it into Windows 10 V1809. In Windows 10 V1903 the sets are also not available.
The Shell-provided tab experience is no more, but adding tabs is high on our to do list.
— Rich Turner (@richturn_ms) 20. April 2019
Now Rich Tuner, product manager at Microsoft, semi-officially confirms the end of this feature. In the above tweet, he answers a user question about the ‘Tabbed console’ is not to be found in Windows 10 V1903, that the tabs in the shell (i.e. the sets) are no longer ‘high on the To Do list’. According to this MSPU article, ‘this things is dead’.
Time to rethink!
Well, it never touched me very much – and I think, with the exception of a few insiders, other users hardly got to know it. For me it’s another indication that Microsoft doesn’t really know where it wants to go with Windows 10. New features are constantly appearing in insider previews, which are then kicked out again a short time later. Examples are the My Peoples App or the Timeline – live tiles were active a bit longer, but are also dead (see Windows Live-Tile takeover from security researcher).
At the end of the day, Microsoft has not genough resources to release new Windows 10 releases stable and without major bugs. So the question is: When does someone in upper Microsoft management ‘pull the plug’ and set Windows 10 up in a way, that it’s a stable and reliable operating system, dedicated to the user’s need? A feature update every 2 years, full update control as well as a LTSC version without telemetry, Cortana and apps also for single licenses (for instance a Windows 10 Pro LTSC SKU). Then a replacement of Windows 7 would not be a major problem for many users. Since 2012 (the time, Windows 8 sees the market), Microsoft has been developing for my taste violently past the needs of users. Or what’s your opinion?