86 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020
FEATURE
...but it makes a bit
more sense like this
There already appear to be pluses and minuses
to this approach. Spanning a web page across both
screens – with a gap in the middle – looks a bit
awkward when the gap splits a page vertically. But
Microsoft’s right in suggesting that if we’re reading
email on one pane, we might want to open a Calendar
app in a second pane.
According to Kevin Gallo, corporate vice president
of the Windows Developer Platform, apps will open in
a singledisplaybydefault.Searchingfora restaurant
inEdge, for example, will open the browser in one
pane. Tapping a map of the area will open the Maps
appin a secondpane, while leaving the first open.
Thismakes sense.
