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Title: What if Microsoft brings the Surface Duo’s App Group feature to Windows 10
Post by: javajolt on August 10, 2020, 01:14:15 PM
The Surface Duo has a feature called App Groups, which lets you create a single icon which will launch 2 related apps on each half of the screen.

(http://i.postimg.cc/cH0CpDPN/edge-and-onennote-app-group.png)

 
The Surface Duo has a feature called App Groups, which lets you create a single icon which will launch 2 related apps on each half of the screen.


The leaked marketing material for the Surface Duo, for example, includes a OneNote and Edge app group, presumably for those who often copy and paste from one to the other.

Designer Zee-Al-Eid Ahmad Rana (http://mobile.twitter.com/zeealeid/status/1292444589266264066) has asked why the Surface Duo gets all the goodies, and what the feature would look like on Windows 10.

(http://i.postimg.cc/VkwNrZL0/app-groups-for-windows-1-scaled.png)

(http://i.postimg.cc/Fzc913Mx/app-groups-for-windows-2-scaled.png)

(http://i.postimg.cc/HkSCY6Jg/app-groups-for-windows-3-scaled.png)

He envisions that the user will be able to create an App Group on Windows 10, be able to specify the layout of the apps and save the group to a single icon on the desktop or Start Menu.

In principle, the idea would be rather easy to implement, and some commentators have suggested this may be a good feature to bring to Powertoys on Windows 10.

source (http://mspoweruser.com/concept-if-microsoft-brought-the-surface-duos-app-groups-to-windows-10/)