I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that many of you don’t use external monitors in a vertical layout. If you use an external display at all, odds are you keep it in the standard landscape orientation, and that’s perfectly fine. What I’d recon as well is the fact that many of you would actually increase productivity by trying a vertically-aligned monitor. For those leveraging the web, coding programs, document editors and more, a vertical layout can give you a ton more info on your screen at one time versus what you get on a landscape display.
Think for a second about many websites you visit on a daily basis. They are generally locked to a specific width (the content is, anyway) and don’t really take advantage of all the space on the left and right of the screen. To actually utilize my ultrawide monitor, I rarely expand anything to full-width on my screen. Instead, I keep more narrow, floating, individual windows open.
