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Virtual desktops have been a free download since the last century. Very few people use them, so there was never much point in shipping them with the OS. Not sure there is now.... https://www.brandwatch.com/2015/08/react-why-thousands-of-pe...

And the idea that Windows is not a developer platform is extremely ill-informed....



The sysinternals virtual desktops free software is highly buggy (crashes on creating new desktop many times when connected to external monitor needing a reboot), hogs memory, never worked well with the Windows 8.1 start menu, never worked well with Windows Store Apps and Alt-Tab. I am glad that virtual desktops are now natively supported.


Mmm, Desktops v2 seemed to work OK, though I never tried it in Windows 8. And there were always third-party alternatives. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc817881

I am glad that virtual desktops are now natively supported.

No argument there ;-)




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