Major Update Coming to Windows 11 Multi-Monitor Support

Alright, so Microsoft has dropped a little nugget for us Windows 11 users, and honestly, I’ve been wondering when they’d get around to this. It’s this thing about viewing notifications on a second monitor, or, you know, any monitor that’s not your main one. Ever tried that before? Yep, pretty much impossible. Anyway, with the latest preview build, it’s finally a thing. I guess someone out there was listening to us grumbling multitaskers.

Before this, you had your date and time just sitting there, totally non-interactive. Like a pretty screensaver and nothing else. But now? You click it, boom — notifications and calendars come flying out. Almost feels revolutionary, right? Okay, maybe not, but it’s definitely saving me from all those unnecessary trips back to the main screen.

So, they announced this in some Windows 11 Dev Channel update. Being able to see your calendar on any monitor is kind of a big deal. I always felt like it was something they just forgot to include when Windows 11 hit the scene, especially since Windows 10 had it. Weird move by Microsoft, if you ask me. But hey, better late than never?

And all of this is supposedly because of user feedback. Makes you feel like shouting into the void actually works sometimes. This change is rolling out to the insiders for now, and I guess we’ll all have it soon enough.

Also, they’ve been tinkering with a bunch of other stuff, like making that energy saver mode smarter — supposedly it’ll now keep an eye on how you work and adapt. We’ll see how that goes. Oh, and there’s talk of a new Start menu. More customizable, they say. Might finally get rid of that Recommended feed that’s been bugging me.

Anyway, Microsoft’s on this spree of improving little things in Windows 11, and yeah, every tiny bit helps, right? It’s like a tiny fix that somehow makes everything just a smidge better. Reminds you that they actually care about our rants.