Worth noting that this feature is limited to installed PWAs, so you'd either have to convince the user to install a PWA via the URL bar affordance (which already requires real HTTPS and respects the LOD), or to manually install a site-as-app through the browser's (relatively buried) UI, at which point you get the same site you're already on, but with a new titlebar. That seems like a pretty unrealistic vector and is much less complex then just getting users to install an .exe.
That said, even with the Window Controls Overlay, the minimal browser controls (close/restore/minimize) are mandatory, as is the browser-owned "..." menu which includes basic trust information for the site as well as app controls (uninstall, permissions, etc.).
> so you'd either have to convince the user to install a PWA via the URL bar affordance (which already requires real HTTPS and respects the LOD),
Getting a valid SSL certificate for getFakeSaas.com is free, and respecting LoD has no effect at this time. Once the PWA is installed, there is no LOD, amd my PWA can phish any domain I desire with faked affordances.
I'm not sure where you get the idea that GDPR doesn't apply to operating systems.
You can control every facet of your diagnostics in Windows settings, see every bit of data collected about you (both locally and on the cloud), and delete it all.
According to every article linked in this sub thread, (a) telemetry is opt out (not in) and (b) you cannot opt out completely, only partially; since telemetry is not actually required to provide service, that would be a GDPR violation, and if it is - I expect someone will take Microsoft to the cleaners over it. (As well as google for android’s data collection)
Per the blog post, we're not localized broadly in the preview, but will be adding more locales/languages as we head towards a stable release. Hope you'll try it again!
The version of Edge you're linking to on HTML5Test there is two years and four major versions out of date. Edge 16 is more than 100 points higher on HTML5Test.
More generally, there's a lot more to making the web great than a blind sprint to adopt every API. Just because it isn't shipping doesn't mean Microsoft isn't a (very) active participant in the standards conversations, testing behind flags, etc. That is a huge part of moving the web forward.
Take Grid as an example - we were the last browser to ship the updated spec, so you could say we "held it back." But we also originated the first version of the spec and worked closely with the community, standards bodies, and other browser vendors on making sure what ultimately shipped cross-browser this year was great, useful, and interoperable. Is that holding the web back?
To add another example, WebVR API cleanup was inspired by Microsoft that joined the group working on this API. Edge isn't yet shipping WebVR, but they are helping with the work.
Good example! Though, for the record, WebVR 1.1 is shipping in EdgeHTML 15. Fair to call it a preview, since consumer headsets won't be available until later this month with the Fall Creators Update, at which point end-to-end support will work out of the box.
Settings -> Notifications -> "Get tips, tricks, and suggestions as you use Windows" is the main one. If you want to really dial it in you can also disable notifications for individual apps like Office or Edge on that page.
Note that if you're on Insider builds, there have sometimes been build-to-build update issues that reset some settings, which can result in this toggle being reset. IMO that's a serious bug you should report, but (hopefully) wouldn't make it to a stable release.
This is a bit confusing. Your comments are factually incorrect (there are no forced-full-screen apps in Windows 10, and the default PDF reader is Edge, which is windowed by default and was designed from the ground up for Windows 10, never for Windows 8 or "Metro"), or at least outdated.
It's a bit of a blemish that there are two control panels, but almost no users are ever exposed to Win32. You can do virtually everything (from updates to domain join to adding/removing Windows components) from the modern Settings app. The legacy control panel is just that, and is irrelevant for most users. I'd love to see it modernized, but there are many much better uses of resources (security! performance! battery life!) than modernizing 90s-era utilities that few customers are ever exposed to.
That said, even with the Window Controls Overlay, the minimal browser controls (close/restore/minimize) are mandatory, as is the browser-owned "..." menu which includes basic trust information for the site as well as app controls (uninstall, permissions, etc.).