All the way back in September last year, before we knew that Microsoft was calling its next-gen OS Windows 10, we reported that we'd see support for up to 8K displays. Well, fast forward to 2015, and it's confirmed: Windows 10 will have support for 7680x4320, or 8K.

The confirmation came from a slide that was used during Microsoft's WinHEC trade show in Shenzhen, China, last week. While 8K is far away for most consumers, Japan is ahead of the curve with NHK testing 8K broadcasts already, and will be blasting 8K out for the 2020 Olympics, too, which will be held in Tokyo, Japan.

8K displays will most likely arrive thanks to the advances of VR headsets, which will require higher and higher pixels to be crammed into the HMD. But with Microsoft fully supporting 8K, we should see the 8K desktop become a reality sooner, rather than later.

We already have TV makers behind the SuperMHL connector which supports 8K, and then the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has shown the Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) 1.4a standard, which will see 8K support in laptops, mobile devices, and PCs.