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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 25 2019, @01:09AM (1 child)
One possibility is to try to accomodate all those folks who have a CPU with the computational strength of 20 Cray-1's of the 1970's, coupled to a video card with the computational strength of 200 Cray-1's of the 1970's, who then proceed to run every single application on their system maximized to full screen, resulting in a UI no more powerful than that offered by a DEC VT100 from the 1970's (except with more pixels, more colors, and individual pixel addressability).
For those folks, since they also are unlikely to turn on the "group similar task bar items together" option, tabs at the top holding the four copies of MS-Turd they currently have open seems easier to use than having to hunt for where the icon is located in the now overflowing task bar.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 25 2019, @11:11AM
It's funny how much of our processing power get lost to bigger displays. Do we really need all that visual information?
I'll postulate a proportionality principle between computing power and the display size (because it's funnier than pixels). Thus increasing the computing power will not give better performance only bigger displays.