


We’d expect this will be a more touch-friendly interface, perhaps with more spacing between Taskbar icons, among other enhancements. While Microsoft said it’s removing Tablet Mode, the company also said, “new functionality and capability is included for keyboard attach and detach postures.” What this means, apparently, is that while Microsoft may be removing Tablet Mode, it’s also replacing it with something that will act similarly. Tablet Mode, as its name implies, works with tablets: Once Windows senses a hardware keyboard has been removed from a Windows tablet, it moves into Tablet mode, adopting a more touch-friendly UI. Tablet Mode, once a staple of the Windows 10 Surface Pro device experience, will go away within Windows 11. Microsoft won’t include Internet Explorer inside Windows 11 at all, though it will include the browser as part of “IE Mode” within Edge. We knew that Microsoft planned to kill Internet Explorer in 2022, and it’s now shoveled another spadeful of dirt onto the legacy browser. Cortana is now just an app within Windows 11.
