Fixes aplenty, but not so many shiny baubles – which is great
With less than two weeks to go before Christmas, Microsoft has lobbed a fresh build of next year’s Windows 10 down the chimney.
Insiders hoping for shiny new toys to play with will, however, be disappointed to find the computing equivalent of a fresh pair of socks.
The 18298 build of Windows 10 is extremely light on new features, which is a worry for fans hoping to see the return of Sets or (whisper it) the arrival of Chromium as Microsoft’s unpaid army of preview-addicts get closer to January’s “bug bash”.
The rest of us will be glad that Microsoft seems to be focusing on fit and finish rather than loading up the Windows elephant-on-a-traffic-cone with yet more baubles and gizmos which, while they might make for great keynote demos, are unlikely to see much real-world usage.
Tweaks in this build include the ability to set up a Security key straight from the Settings page and a fiddle with the File Explorer icon to make it more visible when the new Light Mode is selected.
