We’re only some days into 2023, and already a brand new bug in Home windows 11 has been irritating some customers, myself included. It is all to do with File Explorer home windows shifting themselves to the entrance of your desktop once you’re utilizing one other app.

In line with Home windows Newest (opens in new tab), Microsoft is conscious of the problem and is engaged on a repair, however some customers have reported situations the place, for instance, they’ve been on a Zoom name, and a File Explorer window would seem, obscuring the assembly window.

I’ve had comparable experiences, the place, for example, I’d be enjoying Bioshock by means of Steam in Home windows 11, and File Explorer would rear its unwelcome head.

As tabs in File Explorer had been a function that many customers had been ready for for a very long time, it’s disappointing that they seem to have arrived with bugs in tow.

Did File Explorer want extra time within the Insider oven?

The Tabs function in File Explorer is one thing that I, together with quite a lot of different customers, had been ready for because it was introduced again in April 2022. Whereas it was made out there for some members of the Home windows Insider program, which permits customers to check out options which are in growth, a number of months in the past, we needed to wait seven lengthy months for the function to be rolled out to all customers.

Nonetheless, points like this one counsel to me that Microsoft wanted to spend much more time engaged on this function to get it proper. Having to attend for a function to reach is irritating sufficient, however discovering {that a} function doesn’t work as you anticipated it to when it lastly doesn’t roll out, and coming throughout annoying bugs, compounds that frustration.

It’s been reported that Microsoft is trying to carry new options to Home windows 11 at a sooner tempo this 12 months, forward of a potential launch of Home windows 12 in 2024; however, whereas we’re all for that in precept, if it desires to keep away from incurring the wrath of customers again and again, its builders are going to must redouble their efforts to make sure that bugs are ironed out earlier than options are rolled out to customers.