Microsoft is Preparing For Foldable Windows Devices, Report Says

Microsoft is working on adapting Windows to work on foldable devices, The Verge reported Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The report further added that the company is making foldable devices and dual-screen hardware a big investment area for both Windows and Surface. From the report: This investment includes adapting Windows itself and its many built-in apps to work across foldable displays and devices with dual screens. While Microsoft has been experimenting with its own hardware with dual-screens, codenamed Andromeda, the company has also been working with Intel and other OEMs to be ready for the next few years of experimentation. PC makers famously developed a range of 2-in-1 devices for Windows 8 more than five years ago, and we're expecting to see a similar effort for dual-screen and foldable devices for Windows in the coming years. Most of this work is related to Microsoft's Composable Shell (C-Shell) and Windows Core OS, a more modular version of the existing Windows Shell that powers many parts of Windows 10 today.

BRING BACK MY FLIP PHONE!!

[Narcocide]

And buttons.

They already make those

[nwaack]

They're called laptops and they work just fine, now get off my lawn. Seriously though, does this mean we'll be typing on screens? I sure as hell hope not.

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[im_thatoneguy]

You might on some devices be typing on a screen... you do that already, it's called a smartphone.

But what this will enable is a smartphone sized device that could be unfolded or unrolled into a tablet sized device.

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[zlives]

i already used this technology for maps back in the day.

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[PPH]

I'm afraid that project folded.

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[zlives]

had no legs to stand on...

M$!? +5 Insightful

[Merk42]

M$??!!?!! MiKKKr$oft bad!!1111

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[rtb61]

Not very imaginative. M$ Windows anal probe 10, now on a role up computer, roll it up and store it where windows probe, hands free, with vibrate feature, Windows anal probe 10, controlling your pleasure, well for those into that perverse shite. Just suck it the fuck up, M$ carries on in exactly the same way, we used to had kids for behaving, way back in kindy, nosey, sticking their nose in other people's business, trying to tell everyone else what to do, forcing themselves other kids that were sick of them,

Um... dual screens?

[Entropius]

arandr has been working just fine, thanks.

Seriously, one of these days Microsoft is going to invent a REVOLUTIONARY new transport mechanism taking advantage of rotating objects with azimuthal symmetry to support a moving object with little friction and no change in gravitational potential energy.

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[sd4f]

Consumers are definitely being overlooked at the moment by MS. Interesting thing about the adoption of smartphones is, where MS targeted business in the past, because business drove adoption trends and ultimately made windows the PC OS standard, this time around on mobiles, it's consumers. Consumers have decided that windows phone was a dud and stuck with iOS and android and more critically, business followed the consumers. Because of that, I'm a bit surprised that MS wants to keep on sticking with business

Behind the curve again

[Anonymous Coward]

Apple already sells foldable iPads

I don't understand foldable

[imidan]

I'm not saying there's no point to foldable devices... but what is the point? I hear about foldable phones. Why would I want to fold my phone? It's pocket-sized already. They could double the display area... so I could, what, watch a movie on a 5x4.5 screen instead of a 2.5x4.5 screen?

I guess what I'm asking is, what's the killer app that a foldable screen enables? Is it just bigger screen space that's more portable than a tablet?

Already done

[geantvert]

http://macop.tripod.com/mac/To... [tripod.com]

Huh? What was that?

[Opportunist]

"Windows about to fold"?

I like that headline!

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[Miser]

One can only dream.....

I wish that were the case!

Valueless gimmick

[Dracos]

No one wants foldable screens except those who stand to benefit from a higher rate of replacing them.