The most recent Windows 11 preview build, which is available right now for users within the Dev and also the Beta channels from the Windows Insider program, includes what's promising for File Explorer fans out there.

Before you may well ask, no, the tabs are still nowhere to appear, with Microsoft apparently concentrating on improvements in other regards.

Specifically, Windows 11 build 22593 introduced a brand new default homepage for File Explorer. It's called Home, and it's supposed to make accessing your most important files much easier.

"The default homepage of File Explorer has become called Home. The name Quick access has been repurposed for the pinned/frequent folders section and Pinned files is now called Favorites to align with Office and OneDrive," Microsoft explains.

File Explorer tabs

As for tabs, Microsoft has confirmed this selection is originating, but no ETA has been shared regarding when it's designed to happen.

The company announced at its hybrid work event now that tabs are indeed area of the next-generation feature lineup of File Explorer.

"We want to help Windows users be more efficient and much more productive in each and every experience. The redesigned, cloud-powered File Explorer makes it easier to find what you're looking for, allowing you to see all files in one centralized place. You can also pin files and create tabs in File Explorer, bringing what used to take six clicks to get at an essential file to 1," Microsoft's Panos Panay said in an announcement the 2009 week.

If anything, we should expect tabs in File Explorer to become area of the next feature update for Windows 11, that ought to theoretically go love production devices within the other half of the year, with a preview apt to be offered by the Build developer conference.