I do like how the software keyboard auto-suggests words, however, and wish there were a way to enable that feature when using the hardware keyboard. (Bugs, like a refusal to accept typed input or an inability to launch apps via Cortana, have been fixed.) I’d also prefer to see something, well, more like the Windows 8 Metro apps when Continuum is enabled in an undocked mode. Apps like Paint still require me to fat-finger through menus to force them to work.
OneDrive, the app that isn’t
Beginning with Windows 8, Microsoft launched the concept of OneDrive, or storing your documents in the cloud (using a decidedly ugly Metro app, no less). With Windows 10, OneDrive now is tightly woven into the operating system, showing up as just another folder inside File Explorer. You can even treat it as a shareable drive. One feature has disappeared, though: the confusing “placeholder” files that resided on your PC as a time-saving device. And that’s good.
But while OneDrive has been assimilated into the rest of Windows 10, many other apps remain as standalone applications. If there’s one mistake Microsoft made early on with Windows 10, it’s that the apps themselves looked decidedly blah. Apps “flowed” to fill the available space. On a modern widescreen monitor, they can end up as vast, vacant courtyards with a few weeds of content pushing up. Microsoft’s answer is to minimize or snap the apps into a smaller space. What I’d rather see is some faint, self-aware backdrop tuned to the app—an album cover or band photo in the Music app, for example. What’s impressive is that Microsoft is taking action. On July 15, I mentioned to a Windows 10 product manager that Music needed at least to sync with the userselected Windows 10 color scheme. By the weekend, Microsoft had updated the app and fixed the problem.
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