Wonder Bar: Microsoft has plans with Windows 10X to improve usability on dual-screen devices

Have you come to try the Touch Bar that Apple launched on its MacBook Pro? Many people did not welcome an improvement aimed at sacrificing the function keys in physical format and in which the bet was introducing a screen in an elongated format that adapted to the use at all timesBut successful or not, Apple's moves are often echoed by other manufacturers who adopt or imitate them.

This is what happens with Microsoft, which with Windows 10X, the version designed for the new batch of devices, could bet on the Wonder Bar function.A new functionality that is a twist on what Apple did with the Touch Bar and that takes advantage of the double screen in models like the Surface Neo .

A Touch Bar but full of vitamins

Having two screens gives a lot of play, but it also carries a limitation: goodbye to the physical keyboard This disclaimer, however, does not have to be final In new devices, we can use a magnetic keyboard on the screen that does the work of the traditional keys.

The peculiarity of this system that the colleagues of Xataka México have echoed is that there is a free space at the top of the screen. Much more generous than Apple's Touch Bar, can be usable instead of empty thanks to the Wonder Bar feature.

Windows 10X is a much more adaptable system and this is demonstrated by the Wonder Bar, a function that adapts to the needs of each moment The Wonder Bar can display emojis, videos, a handwriting area, playback controls... all made possible by Windows 10X. In short, it serves to enhance the possibilities of the keyboard that we place on the screen.

The possibilities of the Wonder Bar are enormous (the limit is the developer's imagination), it is true, but Microsoft did not want to lose sight of the horizon and does not want to that it be an open field to implement any type of use that is why it has created a series of rules and advice for developers, who are the ones in charge of adapting this Wonder Bar for their applications. In this sense, they want the Wonder Bar to pursue, above all, improving the usability of the keyboard.

There is still a long way, almost a year, to see a general and public version of Windows 10X. For now, the emulator is available so that developers can begin to experiment with the possibilities it offers and only when the Surface Neo is real, we will be able to verify how it works

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