When I started my most recent job, they gave me a monitor to hook to the laptop they gave me. I mirrored the desktops for a while as the larger print on the monitor made things a bit easier. As time went on and I found myself doing more and more, I switched over to extending the desktop. The ability to have one screen filled with items that are only used occasionally but are often needed quickly and throughout the day and the other filled with dynamic content that is being updated continuously. More than once, I've had times where a 3rd monitor would be helpful. Between remote desktops, instant messaging, email/calendar, ticketing systems, and more; having to keep track of so many different things in a single monitor is just not feasible if you plan on obtaining any sort of production.

After reading this, went to the site on a secure system just to be safe and found no evidence of this. Looks more like the OP was the one with malware.

I'm not going to get into the whole Linux/MacOS/Windows mess, but talk about the Dvorak article. Manjoo at least looks at the OS and gives his opinions on it. Dvorak talks about the marketing that M$ does and does not once actually review the OS. He doesn't say one thing good or bad based on the OS itself. He bases his entire opinion on the marketing. That isn't journalism in any manner whatsoever. It is purely a crack pot writing what he thinks things are based purely on his opinion with no facts.