Windows 10: Windows 10 will now get features and improvements in a new way

With Windows 10 version 2004 or newer, Microsoft added a new item called “Windows Feature Experience Pack“. This can be found under Windows Specifications in Settings > About and it will now include shell components to enable new features in the OS faster.

Currently, Windows 10 Settings app doesn’t provide much of a clue as to why the ‘Experience Pack’ exists in your system. All we know is that it includes “features critical to Windows functionality”, but our sources told us last year that it’ll play an important role in preparation for a more modular future for Windows 10.

As we speculated last year, this pack will give Microsoft the ability to update Windows 10 features through Windows Update and Microsoft Store without entirely updating the operating system.



Windows 10 is currently updated twice a year with new features or significant improvements.

This is going to change early next year when Windows 10 will start receiving new features outside the traditional Windows 10 feature updates.

With the new Experience Pack, Microsoft plans to improve certain features and experiences outside of major Windows 10 feature updates.

Microsoft will also increase the frequency of new features using the ‘Experience Pack’ which will work in Windows 10 version 2004, 20H2 or newer.

Windows Feature Experience Pack updates will be delivered to users through Windows Update, but these updates will arrive faster and they’ll be smaller in size. Basically, it’s going to be a new channel for updating Windows 10 features that aren’t tightly coupled with the OS.

A new experience pack is already rolling out to users in the Windows Insider program with the following new features:

• Screen snipping improvements: You can now use Windows 10’s modern screen snipping to capture screenshots and paste them directly into a folder in the File Explorer. To do this, you need to press and Win + Shift + S to capture your screen and then you need to open File Explorer.
• Touch keyboard: Touch keyboard is now getting support for split mode on a 2-in-1 touch device.

The two new features are currently available for Windows Insiders only, but Microsoft will begin pushing new experience packs to everyone in 2021.

It seems like something most users would be happy about, as it would add new features faster.

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New features and improvements coming to Windows 10

You've gotta be kiddin' me. There must be some way to disable this "Get the App" notification or else I'm staying away from Windows 10 for good. Total nonsense. This feature won't be available to Enterprise users, will it?

 

New features and improvements coming to Windows 10

Five good reasons for me to stick with W7

"For discovery and engagement, Microsoft will add a "Suggested" list, which will deliver smart suggestions of apps from the Windows Store if after a while you haven't installed any apps. You can also notice that the app tile also provides star rating and pricing information for a particular app."

"As the system learns your behavior using and installing apps, the Suggested list will become the "Recently added" list of apps. And when the users use the app enough, the apps will then get listed in the "Most used" list."


"Microsoft's Belfiore also noted that with these new tweaks, the Start menu is pretty much a final product. As such, we don't expect any more significant changes beyond what we see today."


"Cortana will also feature app discoverability from the Windows Store as users use search."


"Future updates of Microsoft Edge will include a new "New Tab" window with the most recent links users have visited in the form of tiles. If the site they visited has an app available in the Windows Store, you will see "Get the app" notification in the link tile as well."

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.