Power Toys for Windows 10 available under an open source license on GitHUb

Fancy Zones is one of the Power Toys for Windows 10

With Fancy Zones we can select different portions of the desktop and drag application windows.

This year Microsoft promised that we would have Power Toys for Windows 10 and delivered. The first Power Toys for the operating system can be downloaded under the MIT open source license from GitHub.

The Power Toys they are small utilities like the KDE Plasma and Budgie widgets, and they used to be present in earlier versions of Windows.

The first Power Toys for Windows 10 that we can use

In principle, the first Power Toys for Windows 10 that we can enjoy are two:

First a keyboard shortcut guide that overlaps the screen when we press the Windows key.  This list is updated to adapt to the windows that you have active. Without a doubt, it is more useful than having a list stuck to the monitor.

The second is decidedly something that if it works well, is going to have me as a fanatic user. It's called Fancy Zones. This application allows you to select sectors of the desktop with a custom size and drag the windows of the applications you are using there. Ideal for those of us who use two or more applications simultaneously.

Diego Did you realize that this blog is called Linux Adictos and not Windows Addicts?

You may wonder why I am commenting on a piece of news in this blog that may only be of interest to Windows users. I do it because I have a different posture than that of other colleagues from the blog. I've been writing about Microsoft's change of position on open source for years. To be exact, since Steve Ballmer discovered that Microsoft could not compete with Adobe in the field of digital animation and that Google could compete successfully in the browser market. Hence the company's enthusiasm for the open standard HTML 5.

Of course Microsoft doesn't release this software under MIT licenses for love. Neither IBM, Red Hat, Oracle, or Canonical do what they do out of love.It does it for its shareholders.

But the point is, it does. The more offer of free technologies there is, the better it will be for the industry and users.


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  1.   Diego regero said

    Some seem like they were born yesterday.
    To ignore the history of M $ is to repeat it: "embrace, extend, extinguish."

  2.   Oscar said

    It would be good this last thing that you comment if these "Power Toys" also work on Linux. If not, zero interest.

    1.    Diego German Gonzalez said

      The code is there for anyone to adapt