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Microsoft’s Windows 10X:

A dozen ways it’s cooler than

just two screens

There’s a lot more under the hood than we expected. BY MARK HACHMAN

B

efore a recent developer event, all

we really knew about Windows

10X was that it would be some

flavor of Windows 10, optimized

for dual-screen devices such as Microsoft’s

own Surface Neo (go.pcworld.com/mneo)

and an unknown number of third-party

competitors by holiday 2020. Now we know

much more, including what’s under the hood.

At the event, the company made a

Windows 10X emulator available (go.

pcworld.com/10xm)—though you’ll need to

assign a fairly powerful PC to the task, and

dedicate it to the Windows Insider program.

Microsoft revealed several intriguing

characteristics of the new OS as well,