Newsletter Archives

• More fun with File Explorer

  Posted on April 8, 2024 at 02:43 CDT by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  WINDOWS 11

  

  By Will Fastie

  Windows File Explorer is getting a major overhaul in Windows 11. The most significant change is a new tabbed user interface, a feature much requested.

  I say “is getting” because File Explorer is a perfect example of Susan Bradley’s “dribble” theory, which states that features are being incorporated into Windows in a constant trickle rather than in discrete chunks. Worse, some of these features are being installed silently — we don’t know what we’re getting until after the fact.

  Trying to review such a moving target is challenging.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.15.0, 2024-04-08).

  Windows 11 File Explorer, Newsletters, Power Users, Tabs, Usability, User Interface

• Edge Workspaces for work and play

  Posted on February 5, 2024 at 02:45 CST by Mary Branscombe • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 21.06 • 2024-02-05

  By Mary Branscombe

  Given how often we all share links to webpages, it’s past time for some tools to manage that better. Workspaces is Microsoft’s latest attempt to share and organize Web links with a group of friends or colleagues.

  Tab groups in the Edge browser are great for organizing yourself, especially now that you can sync between your different desktop devices. But they don’t help with organizing Web links you need to send to someone else, or the ones other people send to you.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.06.0, 2024-02-05).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Browsers Edge, Microsoft Edge, Newsletters, sharing, Tabs, Web Browsers, Workspaces

• How to manage tabs in Edge

  Posted on January 15, 2024 at 02:44 CST by Mary Branscombe • Comment in the Forums

  BROWSERS

  

  By Mary Branscombe

  Microsoft’s browser has multiple ways to manage, group, and share tabs.

  Tools for managing the tabs in your Web browser are nothing new, but Edge has multiple options, depending on whether you want to categorize, sync, or share those tabs. It even has some clever tricks to teach familiar old tab groups — including a long-requested feature which appeared just last week.

  A key aspect I’ll cover here is the difference between groups and collections.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.03.0, 2024-01-15).

  Browsers Edge, Newsletters, Synchronization, Tabs, Web Browsers