If they're feeling the need to point that out ahead of time, you just know the internal design teams have spent the last few months bragging about how great their Sets are, how many Sets they can have at once, how many applications they can partner for Sets, how good they are at mashing Sets together and who can get the most Sets happening at once. Can we just get them in the file browser... It's my biggest gripe when moving between Windows and MacOS. Was using clover but it breaks on hidpi screens. Please please MS, give us a simple and straightforward tabbed explorer! Interesting but doesn't a lot of software already employ this and therefore just be an extension to this thought? Excel, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, off the top of my head. While plenty of applications have their own tabs, it's great for navigating multiple spreadsheets, or grouping separate applications when relevant. You lose nothing as the titlebar is typically quite empty. As for file explorer, it needs dual panes way more than it needs tabs... Edit: on a reread of the article it's quite ambitiously task oriented. In that case the concept seems great, but on several attempts over the years I've never got it to feel natural. I wonder whether the cool parts of Sets may be hard for people to adapt to. I definitely want the tabs though. Looks promising - the basics appear similar to to KDE 4 implementation, which I find excellent. While plenty of applications have their own tabs, it's great for navigating multiple spreadsheets, or grouping separate applications when relevant. You lose nothing as the titlebar is typically quite empty. As for file explorer, it needs dual panes way more than it needs tabs... Is this similar to how Mac OS X 10. No, you should watch the video. This feature allows you to open tabs from different applications in one discrete window. I think it's a great idea. If only it was an original one! Is this similar to how Mac OS X 10. No, you should watch the video. This feature allows you to open tabs from different applications in one discrete window. I think it's a great idea. If only it was an original one! I'm not seeing your point, so what if it's not original? FYI, I'm primarily a Mac and Linux guy, in order of preference. Get it now from Stardock. Looks like it may be the solution to my Windows Woes, but it's not avail yet without purchasing the super deluxe package. Well there is a torrent for that. Even better would be a combo of sets and split screen where the main document appears in the left and the related docs appear in a tabbed window on the right and those two windows are connected. If I remember correctly, Excel used to force all open workbooks into a single window. You could open another instance of Excel to have a workbook in a separate window but then you couldn't link from one to another. It was horrible, I'm not sure when they did away with that but I'm glad they did. I think I have 2013 at home, but I'm not sure what it does. I wish they A Scrapped the useless Win-tab feature. B Let you use Win-tab to cycle through windows in the same order as they were represented on the taskbar like how ctrl-tab works in browsers. C Let you rearrange the order of windows on the taskbar including reordering windows from the same program If I remember correctly, Excel used to force all open workbooks into a single window. You could open another instance of Excel to have a workbook in a separate window but then you couldn't link from one to another. It was horrible, I'm not sure when they did away with that but I'm glad they did. You are correct and it is still only partially fixed. Ctrl-tab will switch between open Excel windows, undo is global to Excel, and there is only one Excel process. It's a terrible choice. Now, I can see the advantage of some of these decisions for a select group of workbooks, but it would be nice if you could have separate processes that had their own groups of workbooks. CTRL+z and a change happens in a different workbook? You can disable this behavior, but it has its own downsides: Looks promising - the basics appear similar to to KDE 4 implementation, which I find excellent. While plenty of applications have their own tabs, it's great for navigating multiple spreadsheets, or grouping separate applications when relevant. You lose nothing as the titlebar is typically quite empty. As for file explorer, it needs dual panes way more than it needs tabs... Sorry to harp on about KDE, but the Dolphin file manager has a great mix of simplicity and power. I've tried lots of dual pane explorer alternatives on windows, but Dolphin's setup is more elegant to me. I especially like that the dual panes are children of the tabs, so that switching tabs will switch sets of panes. I like this idea actually. I can foresee others uses as well. I am all for it as long as they do it right. It would be nice if we could tear away tabs to make them separate app windows again probably already possible and if a separate window could be snapped to another app to create a set. Bonus points if MS allows multi-select of files in Explorer with a right-click option 'open as set'. So the name will change eventually. From a marketing perspective this could be considered a feature, not a bug. Would you recommend TidyTabs and also have you had a chance to try it on a hidpi screen? I'm in the market for some kind of solution. I would say wait for Sets. TidyTabs doesn't have any hotkeys that support next-tab last-tab etc, which I wish I knew before I bought it. I'm not sure about other features, such as drag and drop between tabs. It's really just a proof of concept that some people probably find very useful, not me though. 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