Windows 10 Mobile Will Allow Opening Websites Via Apps

Sweet! A small new windows 10 Mobile feature is out in the open, one that will allow users to open websites with apps. Think of this as app associations with websites.

This screenshot posted on a fairly reliable source, from an unreleased build of Windows 10 Mobile, reveals this change that Microsoft is currently implementing in the mobile OS, which concerns how links are handled by the operating system.

A new option lets users ‘associate apps with websites’, and this basically makes it easier to launch dedicated application when accessing services whose apps that user has installed on the device.

Just makes things a bit simpler, this new feature.

This is how Redmond describes it as:

“Some websites can be opened by an app or a browser. Turn off an app to open the websites with a browser. Your browser is the only installed app that can open websites.”

Handy!

This new option will let you instantly launch corresponding apps when loading websites that already offer an application. For example, loading the eBay or Facebook websites in the browsers can automatically have the app fired up.

Similar features already exist on rival mobile platforms like iOS and Android, by the way.

Apparently, this welcome new option is coming to a preview build very soon, probably in one that will get released for Windows Insiders next week, according to Microsoft.

About this feature, though, do you find it useful?