Thank you for the Intel Collage user guide. This seems like an old feature. Do you know if it is still maintained on new platforms?
I am sorry I do not really see the problem Intel Collage is supposed to solve, apart maybe from the bezel compensation in some rare cases where the someone is willing to sacrifice part of their image.
When you use "extend" in Windows 10, you still have a single desktop, I don't believe you have separate desktops. You can create separate virtual desktops by using Win+Tab whether you have a single or multi-display setups, and each desktop will span across all active extended displays.
Today, you can already span an application or video over different displays out of the box in Windows without the specific Intel Collage requirement of having at least one dimension identical between your displays (horizontal or vertical). With Windows out of the box, you can mix and match monitor resolutions and have content straddling or taking all display surface if resolutions match making a rectangle.
Windows 10 also allows you to disable the taskbars on the extended displays to only keep it on the primary.
Intel Collage doesn't allow you to play content protected content (that is expected) so you can't use it to build a bigger screen to watch Netflix, DVD, Bluray, Amazon Video, the same way you wouldn't be able to across extended displays because of the way HDCP work.
For productivity applications, I haven't received any feedback to date of people being willing to lose part of their displays to compensate for the bezel when you can now purchase displays with very thin or no bezel if you wish to do a slick video wall.
Microsoft will ask for a business case before developing a new feature.
Would you please explain what I am missing?
Regards,
Alban
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