First look at Windows Insider Fast Build 15007

Edge gets polished up, but bugs still remain

Windows Insiders have been able to get their hands on a second upcoming update to Windows 10 in less than a week when Microsoft released Build 15007 to its Fast Ring.

This time there is a build for mobile but, in the meantime, there's even more stuff to see.

First up, about the "set aside" tabs in Edge that were examined earlier in the week. This is a way of grouping tabs and closing down their activity in order to come back to them later. This is intended to save on resources.

Now you can actually share these tabs with other apps. If you've seen the OneTab extension for Chrome, you'll have some idea where Microsoft is driving.

Edge is now better at importing data from other web browsers. We're still not entirely convinced why you'd want to, but apparently, now one-click will import favourites, browsing history, saved passwords and "other data" from your old browser.

The option to run a program as soon as it downloads has been reinstated, and there's now an option to "Save As", as well as saving to the default location.

Also, there are new are tweaks to Web Notes, adding Windows Ink, while for mobile users there's now text scaling and zoom, overriding that dictated by the website, with pages "zoomable" to up to 500 per cent. This also means that the zoom feature in the Ease of Access settings won't bork the page.

Where an app exists, web pages can now offer to open a link inside the relevant app, rather than sticking to the browser.

Most of this stuff brings Windows 10 and its apps into line with just about everything else, rather than giving us anything especially revolutionary, but every little helps.

Build 15007 is for the Fast Ring, of course, and normally we wouldn't mention a build so soon after the last one, although it's not that unusual to have them in quick succession. What is more unusual is to have two builds in one week, which both add so much new stuff to the mix.

Earlier this week we were told that the new Windows build will have "simpler" security options, by which Microsoft seems to mean "fewer".