14 DAY TRIAL // While everyone is waiting for Microsoft to push the go-ahead button for the Windows 10 Spring Creators Update, the company appears to be increasingly focused on the Redstone 5 feature update launching in the fall of this year.
Today, Microsoft released Windows 10 Redstone 5 build 17643 for users in the Skip Ahead ring, and the change log includes several new features.
First and foremost, with this update, Microsoft finally enables Sets, the new feature that powers tabs all across the operating system, in the Office productivity suite, which means that you can run Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, and work with multiple documents all at the same time in just one window.
Microsoft says that this update enables tabs for most Win32 apps with a default and non-customized title bar, so desktop software that comes with their own title bar, like Paint.exe, won’t come with tabs. Additionally, Sets now supports drag and drop with Microsoft Edge windows.
“If you’ve opened a Microsoft Edge window within Sets, you can now drag that tab around within the set, as well as drop it in another Sets window. Dragging between a Sets window and a standalone Microsoft Edge window does not yet work,” the firm explains.
Microsoft Edge improvements
Microsoft Edge is getting one improvement, as WebDriver is now a Feature on Demand, so you have to install it manually from the Developer Mode.
“This should address one of the biggest pain points we see from customers around binary mismatches, as FoD’s match the build/branch/flavor automatically. This also means that the standalone download will no longer be made available for insiders or future stable versions of Windows, as installation is now built into Windows,” Microsoft says.
And last but not least, this build comes with Data Sense improvements to display how much data is being used while roaming on devices with a SIM, but also with Magnifier refinements to choose where to keep the mouse cursor.
There are also several other general improvements and known issues, and you can check them out in the box after the jump.