Windows 10: Windows 10’s new features could come as separate downloads

Microsoft recently shipped the November 2019 Update to consumers and Windows 10 version 2004 is being tested with Insiders. According to a new report, it looks like Microsoft is working on a smarter way to push new features and important improvements to Windows 10.

Windows 10 is currently updated twice a year with significant changes, but Microsoft could be planning a major overhaul of the update mechanism.

A new version of ‘Windows Feature Experience Pack’ has been spotted in the Microsoft Store and as well as the preview builds of Windows 10 version 2004. Windows Feature Experience Pack is highlighted in the Settings under ‘About’ section.

People familiar with the development believe that this could be used by Microsoft to push new features and improvements to Windows 10 independently of regular updates.

In other words, some features of Windows 10 could come as separate downloads, rather than coming with a single major OS update.



While ‘Windows Feature Experience Pack’ does nothing at the moment, splitting up Windows 10 for faster updates could be a right move and it makes sense for Windows 10 or Windows Core OS family.

Another leak has revealed that Microsoft is reorganizing teams within Windows and Azure to speed up Windows 10 development. The tech giant may have split team into a CoreOS team and Shell Experience, so updates and improvements could be pushed more quickly to consumers.

This means the Shell Experience team, which is responsible for the user-interface elements on Windows 10, could push changes to Windows independently of major update releases.

“The ‘undocked’ thing could also mean the separation of works by the two groups of original Windows team, the CoreOS team may follow the pace of Azure org, while the shell experiences part can evolve independently and much faster,” the report said.

In other words, Windows 10’s Shell Experiences could evolve independently and much faster under this structure and the CoreOS team will follow the pace of Microsoft’s Azure team.

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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?

 

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.

 

New features and improvements coming to Windows 10


Five good reasons for me to stick with W7

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"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."