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For two periods last year, those using preview builds of Windows 10 could access to a feature called Sets: a tabbed interface that was eventually to allow tabs to be put in the titlebar of just about any window. These tabs would allow both multiple copies of the same application to be combined—a tabbed Explorer or Command Prompt, say—and multiple disparate windows to be grouped—combining, say, a browser window containing research with the Word window. However, both times the feature was enabled only for a few weeks, so Microsoft could gather data, before disabling it. Sets aren't in the Windows 10 May 2019 update.
The Shell-provided tab experience is no more, but adding tabs is high on our to do list.
— Rich Turner (@richturn_ms) April 20, 2019
It seems now that Sets are unlikely to ever materialize. Rich Turner, who oversees Microsoft's revamping of the Windows command-line infrastructure and the Windows Subsystem for Linux tweeted that the interface "is no more." Having everything tabbed everywhere isn't going to happen. Adding tabs specifically for command-line windows is, however, "high on [Microsoft's] to do list."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 24 2019, @05:44PM (6 children)
Why don't they just fork one of the existing CLI's from Linux. I'm partial to LXTerminal, myself. I don't know if there is any limit to the number of tabs I can have open. I've had as many as twenty open at the same time. I'll admit, I didn't really need all of them - I was just bulling my way through something that I was having problems with. There are better, more elegant ways to do what I was doing. But, the next guy may actually need fifty terminals open! That's a major pain on Windows!
(Score: 3, Disagree) by janrinok on Wednesday April 24 2019, @06:09PM (4 children)
Maybe because if they use it they are bound by its license? I can't see MS wanting to give people their source code, even if it is only a slightly modified version of something that is already available.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @06:42PM (1 child)
Just because one piece of software installed has an open source license doesn't magically make all the software on it open source. That's not how the GPL works.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday April 24 2019, @07:06PM
The GPL does affect (transitively) all of the software that it is linked with.
What linked means for C and C++ is pretty well defined.
The GPL does not affect other software merely aggregated with the GPL software. It is clear that a CD full of free software means 'aggregated'. But what about a Windows install disk? Is that 'aggregated' or would the GPL software actually require more of Windows to be GPL licensed?
I'm sure Microsoft wants to take the most safe possible interpretation of GPL in order to not bring their software under the scope of the GPL.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday April 24 2019, @10:56PM (1 child)
MS really stepped-up their open source approach for quite a while. As long as it's written in C# and not GPL-ed, that is (they started to use even MIT license for their OSS code)
Some examples:
https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr [github.com]
https://github.com/dotnet/wpf [github.com]
https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFrameworkCore [github.com]
https://github.com/dotnet/machinelearning-samples [github.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday April 25 2019, @03:29AM
if they have forked LXTerminal, which is what the earlier post suggests, then it is written in C and is covered by the GPL.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 25 2019, @11:04AM
I'm lucky. I will continue to have my tabbed windows with Fluxbox window manager.