OneDrive Placeholders May Be Replaced Back in Windows 10 ‘Redstone’

Windows 10 has so far received a mixed reception since its release, the many positive aspects which have included the return of a usable start menu has somewhat been outweighed by an operating system thin on privacy, and also a lack of communication to users concerning the update schedule. Now, Microsoft hopes to win back consumers by adding improvements within the “Redstone” update and includes a rumour that a feature by the name of “Placeholders” may return.

If you’re not familiar with this feature, Placeholders had been a handy space-saving feature within Windows 8.1 that allowed any file to be accessed from a OneDrive account by simply double clicking on an icon within file explorer, the difference was the file wouldn’t actually be downloaded to your machine until the user specified. Sounds good, well many users thought so until Microsoft took a crowbar and removed this feature from Windows 10 OS.

According to persistent rumours, this feature is set to be repackaged in time for Windows 10 Redstone release, which is due to be offered to consumers around Spring time of next year (2016).  Why had this feature been removed in the first place? It seems not everyone was able to understand how this handy tool functioned, this included consumers wondering why they were unable to update their files from the cloud when they had no internet connection to their data that was stored online, indeed.

It will be interesting to see the path with which Microsoft treads concerning the development of Windows 10.