Double screens will be a reality very soon. There are already devices with double screens , such as Microsoft’s Surface Neo, but it is not the only one and we have also seen mobile phones, tablets … It is becoming more and more common and therefore operating systems are optimized and prepared for what is coming. This is how Windows 10x arrives, a version designed for dual-screen devices.
Although it is not yet common to see this type of device and although Windows 10x will be delayed according to the expected date at first, we already know what it will be like, what its main characteristics will be or what the one that will star in a great revolution in the operating system will contribute. as we know.
What is Windows 10x?
Windows 10x is not an extended version of Windows 10, as its own name may let us guess. It is not an update of the operating system that we will receive on our computers after a few months and it will not replace the version that we know. It is not a replacement to the current system that we know for desktops, although it does have similarities. They are two different systems designed for two types of devices and that will coexist. It is a specific version for specific devices.
Specifically, it is the same operating system but with improvements and designed for dual-screen devices, with news, with new functions. It came in order to serve and be useful for dual-screen devices such as Microsoft’s Surface Neo and it is an expanded version of the one that we know only too well but with some new features for these screens.
According to Microsoft itself, “Windows 10x brings together the best of Windows 10 . What we have done is to take what we all know of the operating system, combining the familiar with the innovation, to offer unique experiences in dual screen devices ”.
When will it arrive?
Windows 10X will be available from 2021 in dual-screen and folding computers, although it was initially expected for the fall of 2020. Not only Microsoft-brand computers but other brands such as Dell, HP, Lenovo, ASUS … According to the company, “the first wave of products will have Intel processors and will have different sizes, designs and specifications”
For what devices?
This is a version for dual-screen or flexible-screen computers but it won’t come to these devices in the first place. Microsoft confirmed in mid-2020 that Windows 10x would be available for single-screen laptops first. There is still time for dual-screen devices to become common and therefore Windows 10x will begin to be used on normal computers very soon. Also, some of the 10x features are tested first on Windows 10.
It is not only designed for computers but for tablets with double screens, laptops, folding screens, flexible screens or any device that works with a large touch screen and that can take advantage of its advantages and benefits.
News and changes
The interface changes in Windows 10x because it is a system designed for double screens, although it will remind us a lot of the tablet mode that we already have in Windows 10 and that improves the start menu or the sections.
Modes and displays
Starting from the base of Windows 10x as a version for Surface Neo, a device with two 9-inch screens joined, it is an interface in which we can run different applications on each of the screens to have greater control of multitasking . But it also allows us to have a single application on both screens, intelligently expanded so that we can take advantage of it even more and get more out of it. It will also allow us to drag applications from one screen to another to use them together if we need to.
You can have applications open on one screen and take notes on the other , watch videos as you type, watch a series while composing an email, and more. In addition, to improve usability, it will have advanced support for touch pens and will have special gestures to work with the same app or with different ones.
They are expected to be five different modes:
- In book format with the two screens next to each other
- In laptot format like a normal laptop
- In tablet format
- In dual tablet format
- In tent format … Like a tent
Applications and wonderbar
The Start menu is minimalist and has been modified. The applications do not open as before but will adjust to the screen as we open them. The use of the applications will be much more similar to that of operating systems on mobile phones such as iOS and Android.
There will also be a virtual trackpad or a wonderbar, as Microsoft has called it. It is a kind of Toych Bar but it will give us greater accessibility and will have direct access to emojis, for example. It will be in the part of the free screen when connecting a keyboard magnetically, as we can see in the images. It will help us as keyboard support and will give us direct access to emojis, GIFs …
