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I predict that the file explorer specifically will be completely replaced

I really doubt that, Explorer is a big application with a ton of extensibility and features that apps rely on.

Explorer isn't exactly good compared to other file managers of this era, but honestly if Microsoft would rewrite Explorer in this time - you could be assured it would be utter garbage.

> I mean, it's an early leaked build. I predict that the file explorer specifically will be completely replaced, which is why it hasn't been updated at all.

I really hope that _replacement_ will be as feature complete and useful via keyboard as the current explorer. UWP UI components tend to be unnavigable via keyboard.

For example I really like old Win32 listview behaviour to just type in the item name to select it.

FWIW, we also had early leaked builds of Vista and Win8, everyone complained about those, and precious little was changed between those early looks and the final release.

really? early Longhorn builds looked waaaay different from Vista in my opinion.