Did the best files app on Windows 11 just beat Microsoft's File Explorer again?

[Windows Central]

A preview up to Files, a third-party file explorer, just received a preview update that makes it look even better when compared to the default File Explorer on Windows 11.

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[Hato]

Did you started with paid promotions? Because I have tried Files and it can compare to native explorer in anything. Plus you have to pay for buggy BS that will never be what their users wants them to be. Also, what is with this website and all this ads? Fake news, ads flowing like a river it's too much. If you are incapable of running Journalistic website and forum, just stop. I had really good opinion about your team. I don't know what changed, but it's sucks really bad now.

 

[GraniteStateColin]

Did you started with paid promotions? Because I have tried Files and it can compare to native explorer in anything. Plus you have to pay for buggy BS that will never be what their users wants them to be. Also, what is with this website and all this ads? Fake news, ads flowing like a river it's too much. If you are incapable of running Journalistic website and forum, just stop. I had really good opinion about your team. I don't know what changed, but it's sucks really bad now.

Windows Central is an ad-funded site, but any ad blocker works fine to remove the ads (just recognize that blocking all the ads hurts their livelihood). Mostly the same great writers and team they've had for years. Only negative changes from my perspective:

1. Dan and Zac stopped doing their weekly video and have only done a few this year (but they expect more next year).

2. For the past several years, no longer possible to get an email notice if someone replies to comment like this.

Windows Central is still the best Microsoft and Windows site on the Internet.

 

[Sean Endicott]

Did you started with paid promotions? Because I have tried Files and it can compare to native explorer in anything. Plus you have to pay for buggy BS that will never be what their users wants them to be. Also, what is with this website and all this ads? Fake news, ads flowing like a river it's too much. If you are incapable of running Journalistic website and forum, just stop. I had really good opinion about your team. I don't know what changed, but it's sucks really bad now.

I appreciate the feedback! It's always good to see people passionate about Windows and the content we put on the site here. This piece is not a paid promotion. We're required to note paid promotions (and would do so voluntarily to be transparent even if it weren't required).

I agree that Files can compare to the native File Explorer. Files beat Microsoft to the punch when it comes to several features and there are design elements I prefer in it over what File Explorer has to offer. Performance of the third-party Files isn't as good as File Explorer, though that's worked on often by the dev. I think Files does a great job showcases what a file management app should look like and what features it should have, even if it lags behind the native File Explorer in some ways.

I can't comment on some of the other stuff you've said since I don't know of any fake news we've covered. I admit our team publishes hundreds of articles each month, so I haven't read all of them, but I follow Windows Central closely and back our reporting.

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