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Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops

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On 06/08/2014 23:07, Jerry Peters wrote:
> I had an addon from MS for some version of Windows that gave you 4
> virtual desktops. That was it 4, you couldn't change the number, and
> IIRC you switched via the taskbar or toolbar, whatever MS called it at
> the bottom of the screen.

You're thinking of Desktops from Sysinternals, which is indeed now part
of MS. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc817881

> My Linux machines always have at least 12 desktops, and if I need more
> they can be added on the fly. Nice to see MS getting into the last
> decade of the previous century..

Except that we're not comparing apples with apples.

The Desktops util for Windows creates 3 extra desktops. They're actually
completely independent - the desktop is considered a security boundary
in NT.

For *nix a virtual desktop is typically a way of working in different
places on a single "actual" desktop.

There are benefits to both approaches, and in an ideal world I'd like to
have both simultaneously. Hopefully whatever MS are cooking up will
finally let me have that.

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Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-06 01:56 +0000
  Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-08-06 03:30 +0100
    Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-08-06 22:07 +0000
      Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-06 22:16 +0000
        Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-08-10 10:57 -0400
      Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops invis <invis@invis.net> - 2014-08-07 00:58 +0100
        Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-08-07 20:24 +0000
          Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Underactive Moth <underactivemoth@gmail.com> - 2014-08-08 08:17 +0000
            Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-08-08 20:27 +0000
    Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-08-07 16:19 +0300
  Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Underactive Moth <underactivemoth@gmail.com> - 2014-08-06 14:53 +0000
    Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-08-06 21:34 +0100
      Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops invis <invis@invis.net> - 2014-08-07 01:06 +0100
        Re: Windows Threshold: Here come the virtual desktops RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-10 19:59 +0000

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