Samsung has just unveiled its new Desktop Experience, or DeX, during its Galaxy S8 launch in New York City yesterday. This feature is designed to turn a Galaxy S8 phone into a PC, along with Android apps all running in a desktop-like environment.

In order for it to work well, it will be requiring apps to support larger displays. But right out of the gate, Samsung DeX has already started overshadow Microsoft's Continuum.

According to The Verge, Microsoft first unveiled its own version of turning a phone into a PC-like interface, entitled, Continuum feature, in 2015, which was nearly two years ago during its Build developer's conference. At first, Continuum, unlike the Samsung Dex, felt like the first futuristic feature that can make a smartphone into a hybrid, but after two years of little-to-no progress at all, it has very much been hindered.

Several tech analysts believe that the reason why Microsoft Continuum has failed to progress is because very few applications on the Windows 10 Mobile actually support it. In order to support Continuum, app developers have to specifically build a support for Continuum themselves, and most of these developers haven't even bothered, which isn't the case for the Samsung DeX

Samsung DeX, on the other hand, was developed to fully support regular Android apps right away; even companies like Microsoft and Adobe have collaborated directly with Samsung in order to optimize their apps for larger displays. That would simply mean Microsoft Office applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will all run on Samsung DeX just as well as they would on the Continuum.

According to Androbrix, one of the major advantages that Samsung DeX has over Continuum is this fairly basic concept: Samsung has implemented its very own windowing system in line to the one found in Android Nougat. That means users can actually multitask with different apps in DeX, unlike Microsoft Continuum, which restricts users to only one app on screen at a time.

It is rather ironic for Microsoft, the company behind the successful Windows, has still not implemented this basic UI in Continuum. With that being said, many experts think that Samsung, with its Samsung, DeX has outlasted Microsoft in this particular area.

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