7 things Microsoft left out of Windows 10

Interesting updates that were teased, but didn’t make the final cut

As usual in the technology industry, not everything that is anticipated by a supplier appears in the final product. That's what happened with the latest Windows 10 update, the creators update, which was released last month. Microsoft showed some great changes and some minor adjustments to its insider insiders that are not found anywhere in the creators update.

Here are the most interesting. There is a possibility that some of these features may appear in the next major update of Windows 10, which could happen later this year.

1. File Explorer: There is an application for that ... maybe

What appeared to be a Windows application version of File Explorer was found in an earlier Insider Preview. The user interface of this application seemed more user friendly with a touch screen. Do not expect this to replace the original version of the desktop application, which both daily users and power users rely on, anytime soon.

A version of the File Explorer application will probably have fewer features and will twist with its interface. If it is officially released on the next major update for Windows 10, we expect the desktop version of File Explorer to remain and continue to be configured as the default file manager.

2. Forgotten Reminder

The "snoozing" feature of a tab, the ability to set a tab in the Edge browser and assign it to a reminder created in Cortana was removed before the creators update was published. This feature might be useful if you want to remember a specific web link, which you could forget among the many you find and save on Edge. For some reason, this relatively simple feature did not appear in Edge with the creators' update.

3. Mixed Reality / Nixed Reality

Originally, Microsoft spurred that 3D augmented reality would be a huge part of the creators' update. Apart from the new Paint 3D application and the ability to view 3D models in Edge, nothing else in this area did in the final version, such as the notion of using a augmented reality handset to interact with Windows 10.

First under the name of Windows Holographic and Windows Mixed Reality before disappearing into non-reality, the idea was that you could buy a third-party handset and interact with certain Windows 10 applications - maybe doodling in the air to Through Paint 3D.

Not directly linked to Windows 10, but closely related: the ability to import 3D objects into Microsoft Office applications, including PowerPoint, was mentioned by Microsoft. (So that you, using a headset, could see the quarterly finances of your business as a circular chart floating in the conference room?) Such a feature has not yet appeared in any of the Office applications.

4. Let my people go

Microsoft was expected to implement social networking features in Windows 10 prominently with the creators' update. Named My People (probably a job title at the moment), it was to run on the taskbar to the left of the system tray icons. Put your favorite contacts (represented as icons of each of your head shots) to the taskbar, so you can click on one of them to quickly send messages to that person. It seemed that the people available to send messages would come from your contact list of the People application, the accounts that you have with GroupMe and Skype, and the people with whom you collaborate in Microsoft Office.
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My People should work together with the shared user interface, which was updated with the creators update, so you could send (share) things directly to a person in your contacts.

5. Project Neon Darkens

In Windows 10, Microsoft maintained a minimal design theme, which emphasizes a "flat" aesthetic. Many long-term Windows users have been clamoring for a sweet-eyed return from earlier versions of Windows, such as the Aero design that was introduced in Windows Vista.

Project Neon is the next Windows design and interface guide that re-implements effects such as animation and transparency for the operating system. Of all the features that did not make the final cut of the creators update, this is expected to be in the next major update of Windows 10.

With the use of a hacking tool, it was possible to activate an earlier version of the Project Neon theme in one of the preliminal views

With the use of a hacking tool, it was possible to activate an earlier version of the Project Neon theme in one of the preliminary views. The latest Project Neon leaks reveal a start menu with fuzzy and transparent live mosaics and icons in the taskbar sharing the same main color theme. These are ideas of designs that already appear in Windows 10 Mobile.

Although Project Neon was not ready in time for the creators update, the default music application of Windows 10, Groove, was updated and implemented some Neon project sensitivities, such as transparency.

6. Stable easier uninstallation

Most Windows applications can be uninstalled: through the Start menu, right-click an application's shortcut or mosaic and select "Uninstall" from the pop-up menu. But many of the Microsoft applications that come with Windows 10 (including mail, maps and time) can not be removed. There is no option to uninstall in the popup menu for them. However, it was discovered that one of the versions of Insider Preview allows you to uninstall some, but not all, of these Microsoft applications.

This may have been an inadvertent oversight by Windows 10 developers (who may have simply forgotten to block these default applications from being uninstalled). The final launch of the Creator Update removed this option. It remains to be seen if Microsoft will allow you to uninstall more of your applications in the next major update of Windows 10.

7. Capture 3D still locked

Another bold 3D technology shown during Microsoft's announcement of the creators' update: a mobile application (running on a Windows 10 mobile phone, the HP Elite x3) was used to scan real-life objects. These scans were transferred to a Windows 10 computer and loaded as 3D models into a version of Microsoft Paint (possibly an earlier version of the Paint 3D application).

It was speculated that perhaps Microsoft would take advantage of this technology as an exclusive Windows 10 Mobile, in order to give their hesitant mobile SO efforts a boost in the market.

Alternatively, Microsoft could release Android and iOS versions of this application. But there is no news about the status of Windows Capture 3D, and if ever it will be released. It has also been speculated about whether this technology really worked the way it was on stage during the announcement of the creators update, or if it was just a performance put to show how a final product could work.