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Considering that Windows has been supporting multiple displays for what, 20 years now, it feels bit odd to make that the headline feature

• lucb1e 7y ago
  Yeah I'm really wondering why it is news that Windows runs on a device that has 2 screens connected. Can anyone who upvoted explain what was interesting about this? Or if you didn't, at least why we need a new version of Windows to do the same as standard Windows already could?
  • naikrovek 7y ago
    It has dual monitor awareness built in and assumed, which vanilla Windows 10 does not. For example, tapping a link on one screen opens the browser on the opposite screen, always. That simply doesn't happen on vanilla Windows 10, as the OS isn't aware of the concept of multiple displays at that level. To most of Windows, you appear to simply have a single large display when you are using multiple displays. There are plenty of things with multiple monitor awareness, but it isn't inherent as it is with 10 X.
• deckar01 7y ago
  Windows multi-display functionality has regressed with packet based display protocols. Turning Display Port monitors off with their power button is a nightmare. All of your windows get squished down to so tiny size and moved over to one monitor. They won't fix it, because they consider it a power user use case that should be solved by leaving everything on or turning the entire computer off. There is an entire after market of hardware hacks built just to trick Windows into thinking the monitor is still connected.
  • berti 7y ago
    And then when you bring a KVM switch into the mix... sometimes it works well, the rest of the time it does what you described, or just gives up and decides there are no monitors until you replug them.
  • CrackerNews 7y ago
    Would Windows 10X fix these issues? Microsoft appears to be reserving it for dual display devices.
• Twirrim 7y ago
  Yet again Microsoft spins up another version of Windows with a narrow use case. They've done this so many times now it's getting almost laughable how little they seem to learn. Windows 10 has multi-monitor support, good touch and pen support, etc. It's already in the OS. It doesn't need a special version to add support for them at all. If it's about the way the interaction with the screens occur, just make that a mode people can switch Windows 10 to.
  • mrlala 7y ago
    I think though this is, specifically for their form factor of a dual screen laptop? Knowing exactly the orientations and how the screens lineup? Like.. I have 3 monitors, but their auto configurations for the dual screen laptop would make no sense on my PC I assume.