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.
