4 ms·

Me too!! I have so wondered why none of the OS makers was going in this direction. This is a complete gamechanger.

wlesieutre 9y ago
macOS has tabs as an OS feature available in most apps: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25079 https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25079 But I see the main new thing Windows is doing is different apps grouped into one window. That should be handy!
- mateuszf 9y ago
  It's not the same thing. In macOS, it has tabs within one application. It's about tabs across different apps inside one window.
  - ksec 9y ago
    Could you explain the reason why this is better? If we have different App Tabs within the same Window, isn't that a duplicate of Task bar? Because I see this as very confusing for most users.
    - abrowne 9y ago
      Many (non-technical) people have learned how to use tabs by using the them in web browsers.
    - wlesieutre 9y ago
      It's serving the same function that Mac users can do via virtual desktops ("mission control", formerly "spaces"), you group the related things together even if they're in different apps. This is just doing it in a window instead. Windows 10 got a similar multiple desktops feature in a previous update, so this seems like a a second layer of doing the same thing. Whether it's better, or if people will use one or the other or both, who knows? I can say that I use multiple desktops on my Mac all the time and never do on Windows, but that's partly because my Mac is a laptop where screen space is more scarce and the trackpad gestures are very fast. There's definitely some diminishing returns of more and more layers of grouping. Firefox had a "Tab Groups" thing going for a while that let you toggle between different sets of tabs within one window. Doing something at the window manager level where it's a consistent way of packing more stuff into a window across the OS strikes me as more useful. I'm not convinced I'd use this instead of multiple desktops though. If I'm single tasking there aren't usually things I want to group with it, and if I'm multitasking I'll typically want the other window to be visible (or at least sometimes visible) alongside the main task.

macOS has tabs as an OS feature available in most apps: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25079 https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25079 But I see the main new thing Windows is doing is different apps grouped into one window. That should be handy!

mateuszf 9y ago
It's not the same thing. In macOS, it has tabs within one application. It's about tabs across different apps inside one window.
- ksec 9y ago
  Could you explain the reason why this is better? If we have different App Tabs within the same Window, isn't that a duplicate of Task bar? Because I see this as very confusing for most users.
  - abrowne 9y ago
    Many (non-technical) people have learned how to use tabs by using the them in web browsers.
  - wlesieutre 9y ago
    It's serving the same function that Mac users can do via virtual desktops ("mission control", formerly "spaces"), you group the related things together even if they're in different apps. This is just doing it in a window instead. Windows 10 got a similar multiple desktops feature in a previous update, so this seems like a a second layer of doing the same thing. Whether it's better, or if people will use one or the other or both, who knows? I can say that I use multiple desktops on my Mac all the time and never do on Windows, but that's partly because my Mac is a laptop where screen space is more scarce and the trackpad gestures are very fast. There's definitely some diminishing returns of more and more layers of grouping. Firefox had a "Tab Groups" thing going for a while that let you toggle between different sets of tabs within one window. Doing something at the window manager level where it's a consistent way of packing more stuff into a window across the OS strikes me as more useful. I'm not convinced I'd use this instead of multiple desktops though. If I'm single tasking there aren't usually things I want to group with it, and if I'm multitasking I'll typically want the other window to be visible (or at least sometimes visible) alongside the main task.