Windows 8 Multi-Monitor mode detailed

This is the article published today by MSDN on Windows 8 and multi-monitor support, and the author, Steven Sinofsky, reads: When people use a computer that connects multiple monitors, the satisfaction of the experience increases. A multi-monitor operating mode allows us to perform multiple tasks at the same time, thereby increasing the user's productivity. Windows 8 will lead you to experience the benefits of using a large screen and a high-resolution display.

According to data collected by Windows Feedback program, about 14% of desktops and 5% of notebooks are already operating in multiple monitor mode.

Next we'll discuss the goals that Windows 8 can achieve when using multiple monitors:

1. More user-friendly desktop

2. Improve the efficiency of multiple applications

3. Improve user interface usage efficiency

4. Can be used in parallel with Metro style and desktop applications

Multi-monitor configuration diagram in Microsoft Office

humanized Desktop background setting under multi-monitor configuration

We know that in the use of Windows 7 multi-monitor computers, there are some drawbacks to the human desktop background setting, and we have made some changes to the problems encountered during the Windows 7 personalized Desktop setup:

1. Each monitor can display a different background picture

Different desktop backgrounds for different monitors

Select a different desktop background interface

2. Slide settings that match the size of each display

Slide settings that match the size of each display

3. A complete picture can be displayed separately on each display

Full picture display on multiple monitors

Set up a picture a menu of actions displayed by multiple displays

Taskbar for multiple monitor computers

Obviously, the purpose of using multiple monitors is to achieve multiple production. One more display means we can look at some of the operating interfaces at the same time. In desktop operations, all Windows management originates from the taskbar. But as you've come out of the Windows 7 blog, the lack of a taskbar that can operate multiple monitors at the same time is still a gap that we didn't cross before.

Here are some of the results from a number of practical studies that have been reported:

1. Users can choose to use an organized or professional model to manage Windows.

2. Improving the productivity of the taskbar is still the goal that users continue to pursue.

3. Users have their own priority to use the display.

4. Users can retain both the default taskbar settings and the task bar grouping.

Taskbar operation menu for multi-monitor computer

Considering that people will choose different Windows management modes, we have developed the taskbar Operation menu for multiple monitor computers.

Windows 8 Task Bar Properties

1. Show taskbar button in window open interface

Open the Application button on the interface taskbar in window

2. Display task buttons on the main taskbar and the taskbar that opens the interface

On the main taskbar and the button that opens the interface

3. Can display any one of the taskbar buttons on any one monitor (default)

Application buttons for all taskbar (default button)

Window 8 Change of the little revealed

Break the boundaries, break the corners

You can select the start key on any one of the monitors:

You can switch the most recently used applications on any one of the monitors.

You can bring the Charms menu in a monitor

Start and move Metro-style apps on any interface

The following steps are:

1. Click Start

2. Switch to an application in any one of the monitors

3. Use shortcut keys win+pg up or WIN+PG Dn

4. Drag the metro style to any one of the monitors you want

Improvement of mouse usage between monitors

It is not difficult to find that when we use a multi-monitor computer, we often feel that the switch on the edge of the display is especially difficult, and accidentally jumps to the wrong monitor.

And then we're going to make improvements in this area, making it easier for us to interface between the selected monitors.

By imitating the Fitts ' law, we realized the true sharing edge between the monitors. The red edges shown in the following illustration will guide your mouse to the monitor switch.

This red edge is only 6 pixels, so it doesn't affect the overall beauty. At the same time, it is only displayed when your cursor is placed in that position.

This shared edge setting is not just to improve the new Windows 8 user interface, but also to make it easier to click on the "Off" and "desktop display" keys.

Continue to look forward to

By changing these new features, we hope to give you a better user experience and a more seamless use of Metro-style apps while using the desktop. Of course, in the next stage, we will continue to improve the customer experience, continue to develop.