Microsoft’s new ‘Sets’ could be the best Windows feature in years

Windows is about to get a serious productivity upgrade.

Microsoft is testing a new “Sets” feature that allows you to group multiple applications into the same window, similar to how you would organize tabs in a browser.

Microsoft is only teasing a very early preview of the feature for now — it’s rolling out to a small subset of Microsoft’s Insider program that seeds betas of new Windows versions to those who opt-in — but it’s already clear the feature will be a huge change.

While Windows 10 has had multitasking features like Task View baked in from the very beginning, these features have been more focused on making it easier to switch between applications. Sets promises to cut out many of the extra steps required by app switching by letting you group multiple apps in the same window. Read more…

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