Windows Promises Native Virtual Desktop Experience For Windows 10

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I was really excited when I thought it was native integration for VR HMD's like the Oculus Rift.
Still good to see for Windows, but its a feature been around for a long time (Linux).
 
Talk about OLD news LOL? We have had Virtual Desktops sense the beginning of Windows 10.

That being said, I too never use them. Rarely use them in Linux, usually by accident. I guess it would be nice to have one desktop for play, one for school or work.. but what else?
 
Hasn't it already had this for a few months now?
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Talk about OLD news LOL? We have had Virtual Desktops sense the beginning of Windows 10.
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It's not about the feature itself. It's about the usability of the feature.
People have been complaining that they can't drag & drop windows from one virtual desktop to the next. This is for them.
 
How is this better than minimizing windows, or just having them behind the top window? Then I can just tab between them.
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Alt-Tab works well if you only use your windows when maximized.
As soon as you need to use multiple windows side by side, bringing all the necessary windows to front can be a lot of work.
 
Anyone herd of Multi-Monitor?
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At work I use dual monitors, and also a pair of machines. My main machine is not windows, so one virtual desktop is a (dual screen!) remote into my windows desktop.

Another desktop is my debugging environment...debugger on left monitor, app on right. Another desktop is playground...browser and music player. Another desktop is... well, you get the idea. Everything is full screen, all the time. And my fingers know how many control-arrow hits it takes to drop me exactly where I want to be.

By comparison, on windows, I have to hunt through the taskbar or app-switcher, or minimize foreground windows to cycle through the half-dozen full screen apps there. And I have to pay attention to do so, because things aren't in any set order or place.
 
It must have been difficult to write this Article without mentioning OS X Lion,which introduced the Mission Control feature in 2011, and is arguably the best Virtual Desktop implementation ever created. And before that Apple has Expose and Spaces that did largely the same thing as far back as Leopard in 2009.
Microsoft's implementation appears to be inspired by it (which is a good thing) but... what the hell took so long? And in that same time Apple made iPhones, and iPads, hot new MacBooks, etc... It's not like Apple did nothing else.
 
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Virtual desktops has been available for Windows through display drivers and 3rd party apps for around 2 decades. As usual when Apple adopts something, years or even decades after everybody else, some Apple fanboy genuinely thinks Apple just invented it.
 
^^ Right, Way back ('94) there has been multi desktops programs for Windows even one that expanded the width of the desk top so it could be like five times as wide.
I really liked the one on XP and used it all the time, those were the days when my PC was left on 24/7 with a UPS as protection.
 
"It must have been difficult to write this Article without mentioning OS X Lion,which introduced the Mission Control feature in 2011, and is arguably the best Virtual Desktop implementation ever created. And before that Apple has Expose and Spaces that did largely the same thing as far back as Leopard in 2009.
Microsoft's implementation appears to be inspired by it (which is a good thing) but... what the hell took so long? And in that same time Apple made iPhones, and iPads, hot new MacBooks, etc... It's not like Apple did nothing else. "

No, id say it wasnt inspired by apple, it was inspired by unix/linux/other nixes which have had multi desktop spaces for 20-30 years, maybe more.
 
I was using Virtual Desktops in OS/2 Warp back in 1996-1999, it was quite useful and made it difficult to switch to windows when the time came.
 
Why wait for the Windows 10 if you can get the same function on the current Windows 7/8 system?

For this i use Actual Window Manager 8.3, it has some Windows 10 features like a Snap Assist, Search button on taskbar, Virtual Desktops and many other very helpful tools for everyday work.

In addition, this program allows you to customize each virtual desktop . I think it's brilliant! I really recommend this software for everybody.

Here is a link http://www,actualtools.com/windowmanager/
 
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