virtual desktops

The countdown to our Windows 10 launch continues. Today, we’re talking about multi-doing on Windows 10. Our lives are busier than ever requiring us to juggle more tasks, both big and small. Wouldn’t it be great if our devices could help make accomplishing our tasks simpler? With features like...

Hi everyone, We have a new build for PCs releasing today to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring – Build 10130. As I mentioned with the last build, from here onward you are going to see a lot of tuning, tweaking, stabilizing, and polishing which means fewer big feature changes from build to build...

Hi everyone, Today we are releasing a new Technical Preview build for PCs – 10061. This build will be available to the Fast ring, and will be delivered via Windows Update. You can wait for your PCs normal installation time for Windows Updates and it will install automatically, or you can go to...

We know there’s a vocal set of people who just love virtual desktops. Having desktops beyond the limitations of a physical display is a powerful way to organize and quickly access groups of windows. Virtual desktops aren’t new. In fact, Xerox PARC created one of the earliest virtual desktop...

Hi everyone, I’m happy to announce we’re rolling out Build 10041 for PCs to the Fast ring. Like all of the previous preview builds this one comes with a collection of new functionality and bug fixes. The build will only be available through Windows Update for systems already running a previous...

A) Some people have said Multiple Desktops & Task View is silly or unnecessary or 'geeky' when I suggested it could be put to good use. B) Windows 10 allows some funky snapping. 1/2 screen or 1/4 screen. And everything 'floats' & is sizable. Well, it is becomes bloody neat when you combine A...

Really like the multiple Desktops. @ 1st thought it was much like Alt-Tab or hovering across Taskbar, basically, another View/Select approach. In 7 (& 8) would run more than one tabbed browser grouping related sites in each. This does that and on a higher level. Can EASILY be done by...

According to Mary Jo Foley Microsoft intends to release the developer preview of windows Threshold either late September or early October: Read the full blog here: http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-to-deliver-windows-threshold-tech-preview-around-late-september-7000032668/ Edit: If your...

Link Removed Topics............. Microsoft Could Remove The Clock From Windows 9 Taskbar Microsoft Might Remove The Charms Bar From Windows 9 Desktop Windows 9 Preview Version Launching This Year, Report Windows 9 To Include Support For Virtual Desktops P.S. I feel stupid that I have to...

Hornsby Shire Council in northern Sydney is in the pilot phase of a rollout of virtual desktop infrastructure. The rollout, which is due to be completed by the end of June, will involve shifting the council's employees from Windows XP to virtual Windows 7 desktops delivered via Nutanix converged...

I have Windonws 7 Professional running on several virtual desktops (VMWare View). The virtual desktops go to sleep after a few minutes, and require a password on wakeup. I've read a number of threads that deal with either disabling password on wakeup, or preventing the OS from going to sleep...

July 7, 2011 -- Cloud services provider ThinkGrid announced on Tuesday that it has launched Microsoft Windows 7-based Hosted Virtual Desktops. Link Removed - Invalid URL

The discovery of Microsoft India researcher Manoj Manduva's portfolio has given clues as to some of the interface features that may show in Windows 8. The proposal would include multiple virtual desktops that would include an "advanced desktop mode." Its basic template would appear to be a...

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The Power User's Guide to the Windows 7 Taskbar Link Removed It seems like every week we learn about a new tip to enhance the Windows 7 taskbar, and it's hard to keep them all straight. Here's the complete power user's guide to tweaking and using your...

Practical Migration: Managing Your Windows 7 Rollout -- Windows 7 Migrations -- InformationWeek To say that enterprise IT's acceptance of Windows 7 is on a steady upward trend would be an understatement. Responses to our July 2009 InformationWeek Analytics survey asking about deployment plans...

Open Source Project to Enhance Linux 3D Desktop 3D-Desktop is an OpenGL program for switching virtual desktops in a seamless 3-dimensional manner on Linux. The current desktop is mapped into a fullscreen 3D environment where you may choose other screens. Several different visualization...

I haven't been able to figure out definitely if Win7 has multiple desktops or workspaces a'la Linux? I'm also a Linux user (actually have been using it more than XP until I took the plunge into the Win7 RC) and really miss being able to spread out over multiple workspaces. Anyone know if this...

Hi everyone anybody know a good Virtual Desktop application for X-64. The excellent Sys - internals desktop.exe version doesn't work in 64 bit builds -- the 2nd etc desktop just shows the background secreen without any apps and you can't get the "Orb" to launch any applications. (Logging off /...

Just a Question -- Has anybody been able to "replicate" the old XP Power toy where you could have 4 virtual desktops Linux has had this feature for AGES and is not only restricted to 4 but I'd be quite happy with 4. I've added this as a suggestion to MS both via feedback and by direct...