Microsoft has announced that the Windows eight unharness Preview, that is due in early June, can fortunately feature a bunch of much-needed multi-monitor tweaks and fixes.First and foremost, within the unharness Preview (and final version, presumably), each monitor currently has “hot corners.” In Windows eight, the beginning Screen, Charms bar, and Metro-style task switcher, are all activated by pushing your mouse into a corner of the screen — however on a multi-monitor setup, these hot corners solely existed on the first show. This was beyond stupid, and has currently been fastened.
Additionally (and showing rather spectacular foresight, given Microsoft’s heretofore Windows eight interface snafu) the discharge Preview will introduce mini corners on shared edges. Now, where one monitor connects to a different, there'll be an actual, six-pixel-high corner that your mouse will butt up against. this can be infinitely higher than the age-old expertise of tentatively moving your mouse, praying the pointer doesn’t jump to the opposite show. this can be clearly mainly targeted at improving the usability of hot corners, however it'll conjointly facilitate with hitting the shut button on maximized windows.
If you followed our video demo of a multi-monitor Windows eight shopper Preview setup, you'll be terribly, terribly glad that Microsoft has finally addressed these shortcomings. It’s conjointly price saying that Windows eight contains a much-improved multi-monitor taskbar/superbar, and you'll set completely different wallpapers for every show or span one image across multiple displays (these changes are already within the shopper Preview, and are well price fiddling with if you haven’t already). There’s a video that demonstrates all of those changes embedded below.
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