Microsoft is developing an adaptive shell for Windows 10

Microsoft is supposedly working on a significant upgrade of the Windows 10 shell. Inside the company, this project is known as a “cshell,” that is, the Composable Shell. The update will allow Windows 10 to work on a very large range of different devices. Journalists of Windows Central claim that Composable Shell will be an adaptive shell that can adapt to the gadget on which Windows 10 is running.

Now Microsoft uses various shells for Windows 10 on PC, mobile OS and Xbox system. Composable Shell removes the need to use its own shell for each of these types of devices. The OS will be unified and will be able to work, in addition to the mentioned devices, on other systems.

Another suggestion is that Microsoft's Composable Shell plays an important role in the development of a device called the “Surface Phone”. Windows 10 will work on this device. Most likely, in the near future we will see small gadgets from Microsoft with a hardware platform based on ARM. If so, and most likely, yes, then the company really needs a universal adaptive shell.
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Composable Shell will play a crucial role for Continuum, a critical feature of Windows 10 Mobile. Last year, the corporation showed a demo version of its shell at the Ignite 2016 event. Then the company demonstrated how the Continuum for phones works on mobile devices and looks very similar on both PCs and mobile gadgets.

The upcoming Microsoft phone will have a foldable screen, and Composable Shell will show its capabilities. So, in the folded state, Windows 10 will work in mobile mode. When you open the screen, Windows 10 with Composable Shell will switch to desktop mode. At the same time, almost all the features of Windows 10 will be available both to users of mobile devices and those who work on the desktop.

Now, Windows 10 users (at least some of them) are waiting for the Surface Phone and Windows 10 to appear on the ARM architecture. Unfortunately, there is no universal shell yet, so there are no such gadgets either. The desktop version of Windows 10 is not adapted to work on devices with small displays with a diagonal of less than 6 inches. This problem will be solved and Windows 10 will become a universal system.


Composable Shell - a shell divided into separate modules - components. The system can transfer data between individual components, if necessary.

The shell will be truly universal. Windows 10 Mobile, for example, will be able to work on a desktop PC, but the desktop version of this operating system will work without problems on a mobile device. Windows 10 will be used to work on devices like Hololens and Xbox.



For Microsoft, this development will be useful in the sense that corporations will no longer have to maintain and update every modification of their OS for different types of devices. The Composable Shell environment will be almost the same on all devices. True, the differences between the functions of different devices will still be. So, the Xbox will be "sharpened" for work with games, the mobile version will be adapted for smartphones, with a reduced number of functions.

Now Microsoft is planning a smooth transition to uniting various devices with a single Windows Shell. OS operation will be universal, regardless of which OS gadget is installed on. Currently, Windows Shell is quite different depending on the editions of Windows 10. For example, the mobile version of such a system uses Windows Shell not of the version that the system is for personal computers.

Now the corporation is working on a full-fledged desktop for Windows 10 Mobile using the Continuum function. In general, if all of the above really comes true, users will wait for the next major update of Windows 10. In general, Microsoft is still very actively promoting its new Windows 10 operating system. Probably, the management of the corporation is focusing on the fact that more and more users are working with this OS, and after working with a new operating system, fewer users can abandon it after some time ...