File Explorer to Become a Modern App in Redstone

"New information has been revealed on Twitter from a Microsoft employee's account which indicates that with the upcoming Redstone update, Microsoft is going to revamp explorer to make it a Universal Windows Platform (UWP)/Metro app.

Peter Skillman, GM of Core UX for Windows Desktop revealed that they are working on a major update to File Explorer that can be used on touch devices. He has not shared exact dates when we will see these changes in Insider builds, but they will come eventually, sooner or later.

While this is definitely good news for touch screen device users, it is likely that most of Explorer's functionality will be eliminated like what happened to almost all modern apps based on the Universal Windows Platform."

This article was posted on Winaero March 22, 2016 by Sergey Tkachenko.
Link: https://winaero.com/blog/windows-10-r...file-explorer/

First the classic time/date pane disappears and now this, things are going downhill fast for the Redstone update. This could mean the end of ONE, themes and customization of Windows explorer