Tech Advisor - UK (2020-01)

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JANUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 51

First Look: Microsoft

Windows 10X

N


early a decade after the fabled Microsoft
Courier was strangled in its crib, PC makers
desperately want dual-screen hardware to
become a thing. Lenovo’s Yoga Book dropped all
the way back in 2016, while Asus, HP, and even Intel
itself have all teased dual-display devices of their
own in recent months. Now all that hardware is getting
some much-needed software backup: At its Surface
event in New York, Microsoft revealed Windows
10X (ten ten?), a version of the popular operating
system designed specifically for Windows devices

Ten ten? BRAD CHACOS reports

JANUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 51

First Look: Microsoft

Windows 10X

N


early a decade after the fabled Microsoft
Courier was strangled in its crib, PC makers
desperately want dual-screen hardware to
become a thing. Lenovo’s Yoga Book dropped all
the way back in 2016, while Asus, HP, and even Intel
itself have all teased dual-display devices of their
own in recent months. Now all that hardware is getting
some much-needed software backup: At its Surface
event in New York, Microsoft revealed Windows
10X (ten ten?), a version of the popular operating
system designed specifically for Windows devices

Ten ten? BRAD CHACOS reports
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