How Apps Would Run on Microsoft’s Dual-Screen Surface Andromeda

Microsoft’s Surface Andromeda has already been pushed back and may never see daylight, but there’s evidence that the project already reached an advanced development stage before getting delayed.

A two-pane view in Windows 10 SDK build 17692 suggests that Microsoft already prepared the foundation for apps to run on Surface Andromeda and support the dual-screen design. As @zhuowencui posted on Twitter (via @h0x0d), such capabilities allow “two views (in the same app) to run side by side, or stacked when in portrait.”

This means apps can adapt their interface depending on the orientation of the screens on Andromeda, thus offering support for several of the form factors that a dual-display device like Microsoft’s would power.

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