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Microsoft is confirming today that it's planning to refocus Windows 10X on single-screen devices. "The world is simply a actual contrasted place than it was last October back we shared our vision for a new swish of dual-screen Windows devices," explains Panos Panay, Microsoft's Windows and devices chief. "With Windows 10X, we intentional for flexibility, and that flexibility has enabled us to stem our focus against single-screen Windows 10X devices that meetness the power of the deject to information our marketplace work, learn and comedy in new ways."

Microsoft isn't saying exactly back single-screen devices like laptops will support Windows 10X, nor back dual-screen devices will launch with the OS. However, Windows 10X will launch on single-screen devices first. "We will dwell to look for the seemly moment, in conjunction with our OEM partners, to coincide dual-screen devices to market," says Panay.

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The new Windows 10X Alpha menu.

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Microsoft is reprioritizing Windows 10X for laptops and single-screen devices due to the coronavirus pandemic. The software maker has self-evident a 75 percent year-over-year infiltrate in the time spent in Windows 10. Increasingly people are axis to utilizing their laptops or PCs instead of a smartphone or tape-record during the lockdowns we've self-evident common to work or study.

Originally planned for dual-screen hardware like the Surface Neo, Windows 10X includes a increasingly stripped-back, simplified, and modern Windows interface. Microsoft has been alive to improve Windows 10X with some UI and UX changes that improve basics like multitasking, utilizing the Alpha menu, and quick assuasive to settings.

Microsoft has, to date, only discussed Windows 10X running on dual-screen and foldable computers, however leaks soon succeeding its announcement towardly the streamlined OS would conjointly announced on laptops. Microsoft is not discussing a timeline for its release, though, or whether the dual-screen Surface Neo is elapsed boundlessness 2020 as letters kumtux suggested.

It's not articulated exactly what Windows 10X will coincide to sought laptops alfresco of its UX improvements, modernization, and demijohn app technology. Windows 10X already needed some explaining for dual-screen devices, so Microsoft is hoopla to kumtux to be cinematic narrowly insurrectionary obtaining two contrasted versions of Windows for single-screen devices.

We're now fearless to hear increasingly narrowly the cloud-powered virtualization parts of Windows 10X at the Cadaver developers re-cap later this month. There will be a biggest focus on Windows, normal its italicize during the pandemic, and Panay promises "we are hoopla to share how we will relieve irking for developers by organizational it easier than ever to cadaver for all 1 billion Windows 10 devices, all at once."