Windows 10 will not have Sets, Microsoft abandons the project

One of the future updates to Windows 10 should have included the introduction of the Sets feature , which is a way of reorganizing the user interface based on the use of cards to manage multiple applications, for example grouping several different programs in a single window and to switch from one to the other as with the web browser tabs. The basic concept is to maintain a workflow inherent in a specific activity, within the same window.

According to what has been learned, however, Microsoft would have decided to remove the project without any intention of taking it back in hand . The functionality, in fact, would not have been positively received or fully understood in the various testing sessions.

Not only that, even the "restructuring" of Edge using Chromium would have catalyzed Microsoft's decision. In fact, to integrate the new Edge in Sets a quantity of work would have been necessary to revive the release of Edge or, alternatively, to distribute it without the support of Sets probably for several months.

However, the Windows 10 development team would like to continue with the intention of introducing tab management in the Windows Console , which at this point will not see Sets as the basis for development.