Multi-Monitor Support from Windows 8

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Recently, Microsoft collected data from their [url=http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2008/09/10/the-windows-feedback-program.aspx">Windows Feedback Program, which indicated that 14% of desktop PC’s and 5% of laptops connect to more than one monitor.

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The new enhancements will come from recognizing several key features that Microsoft believes the users want for their systems. These are:

• Make the desktop a more personal experience. Allow the most personalized feature on the desktop to work across multiple monitors that is the ability to customize the desktop background.
  
• Improve the efficiency of accessing apps across monitors. Improve and extend the taskbar across multiple monitors. That is due to recognizing that in Windows 7, the top request from people using multiple monitors was to improve the taskbar efficiency.
  

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• Improve the efficiency of accessing the system UI. Users have gotten used to having important information available, like the clock, recently used apps and the like. In Windows 7, you could only access the Start menu on one monitor. With the introduction in Windows 8 of new UI that puts controls at the edges of the screen, the idea is to make sure that it’s still easy to access certain elements, like Start, the charms, the clock, and your recently used apps from every monitor.
  
• Allow side-by-side Metro style and desktop apps. A new feature, due to the Metro enhancement will be that you can launch or move a Metro style app to any monitor, side-by-side with desktop apps on another screen.
  

Like other features in the works, Microsoft is intent to letting users know and feel that the new OS will be different, especially in how users will work with it. It’s part of their “[url=http://www.everything-microsoft.com/2012/05/18/microsofts-answer-metro-criticism/">we’ll just see about that” view point.

Source: [url=http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/21/enhancing-windows-8-for-multiple-monitors.aspx">Microsoft Blog

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