Windows 8 Dual Monitors?
I’ve been using dual monitors for years, one monitor just isn’t enough. What are the odds Windows 8 will get dual monitor support right without using 3rd part applications? I think we have a pretty good chance. I love the extra space for all those crazy windows I have open and I appreciate having as much interaction with my computer as possible. I never seem to have enough space, I could get a bigger monitor but I just don’t see the benefits like I do having multiple monitors. Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 all seem to have difficulty without third party applications to maintain nice wallpapers and keep the taskbar looking sexy.
I don’t like how I’m naturally unable to management my entire monitor options with the core operating systems available at the moment. Microsoft will show you HOW to do multiple monitors but we’d really like to see more from Microsoft with the next operating system Windows 8. Windows 8 should include many options for dual monitor wallpapers that have great resolution and are extremely high quality. Windows 8 should also auto configure these monitors using the existing drivers that comes with the operating system or the operating system updates.
For now, anyone who wants to use dual monitors has to hunt the next to make the most of the dual monitors. I personally use a free copy of Display Fusion developed by Binary Fortress. Display Fusion helps synchronize wallpapers across multiple monitors. You’d think would be very easy, but is not included with current Microsoft operating systems. Microsoft has stated publically they will focus on dual monitors with Windows 8, since many employees at Microsoft use dual monitors.
Here is to the future of Windows 8 with great dual monitor support. I know the hardware vendors are really pushing Microsoft for this improvement with dual monitors. Imagine if each computer system sold gets the customer to buy 2 or 3 monitors!
I love my monitors! If Windows 8 doesn’t support dual monitors, Apple will!
genepooldesi
30 Oct 09 at 12:49 pm
Is that paris? now I want a setup with dual monitors.
Larry074
30 Oct 09 at 4:25 pm
sexy!
RasinnX
31 Oct 09 at 12:17 pm
I’m hoping I completely missed your point, but your rant appears to be 4 paragraphs on how your wallpaper doesn’t behave as you’d expect it to, and thusly throw the entire concept of multiple-monitor-support out the window. If Windows didn’t have dual-monitor support, you wouldn’t have dual monitors. Your wallpaper is completely insignificant in the grander scheme of things.
I personally find no issue with the way Windows handles multiple monitors or even wallpapers. I will at least grant you that auto-center or spanning can be a pain, but if your image is crafted to your liking then it will do exactly what you want it to. Don’t blame Windows for not automatically reading your mind and doing what you want. This mentality is why Office makes me want to punch babies.
Let’s not cry over your pretty landscape pictures and get to the heart of more important issues: like dual-card dual-head not capturing or performing properly. Many of us have grown beyond your dual monitor setup and gone to triple or quadruple monitor setups, which obviously requires more than 1 video card. I’m very sorry Paris doesn’t quite look right in your basic dual monitor setup, but that is so insanely insignificant and borderline offensive that you underhandedly claim Windows doesn’t support dual monitors. My advice to you is either learn how to do it right and stop blaming your shortcomings on the operating system, or purchase a 3rd party program as you seem to have already resorted to.
With that, I say Good Day.
Srsly??
27 Dec 09 at 1:42 am