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That's really awesome!
http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwin...ojB0R0.twitterWe 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 experiences called Rooms and made a version available for Windows 3.x back in the 1980s. Microsoft offered the Virtual Desktop Manager as part of the Windows XP PowerToys and a little while later released the Sysinternals Desktops add-on which enabled similar functionality. Many other OSes and third-party utilities have also embraced the power of virtual desktops. Given the growing popularity of this organizational tool, we decided to build a native virtual desktop experience directly into Windows 10.
I've been managing multiple open Windows for years without hassle which is why I personally can't see the benefit. The only advantages I can maybe see so far is to have a VD (I'm not sure I like that acronym) open for debugging, one open for graphics work, one open for forums...
Maybe it will be worth it, I don't know. It's just not something I've missed or ever thought would be useful.
Most apps, unless they're explicitly written not to, will open multiple instances... But the Taskbar since Windows 7 hasn't made it easy to open multiple instances if you don't know the trick. You have to right click on the taskbar icon to get the menu with jump lists, but in the bottom section it lists several commands, including the one for the app. If you click that it launches a second instance, such as with File Explorer.
The purpose of multiple desktops is to better manage the layout of your apps. Just like if you had more than one physical desktop. You can put apps for the same tasks on the same desktop. It's not for people that work with one app at a time... it's for people that have 10 or 15 or 20 open apps. This becomes even more important when we have 16 and 32 GB of memory in our systems, we can run so many more apps simultaneously.
Most native apps, yes; Store Apps, no.
Yes, you can open numerous instances of most native apps by wheel clicking them.
However, I still don't see the point of having numerous 'desktop windows' engaged to navigate to an 'app window' when they are all there accessible and visible on the taskbar already with a mouse hover.
Like, I mean, why navigate to 'Task View', click on it, shift to the window you desire then pop it up from there; why not just hover the thumbnails on the task bar and pop up the desired one from there?
Perhaps it's a handy feature for heavy multi-taskers who are working on 50 things at once, but under normal circumstances it just seems like a bunch of extra steps.
Let see; do I need this feature, no. Albeit there will be others (maybe not home users or gamers) who will find this a great feature. . .to those who won't need it then hey no big deal, right. . .