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Microsoft Invents Split Screen PC

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the let-me-have-less-please dept.

An anonymous reader writes "New technology from Microsoft Research India in Bangalore could end the waiting game in offices with limited computers. Researchers are developing software that splits a computer screen in two halves, each side with its own operating system, desktop, applications, cursor and keyboard." Mom! Timmy is on my side of the screen again!

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  1. Re:It's been done before by Goaway · · Score: 1, Informative

    Except of course that that is not the same thing at all.

    So yeah, this is pretty much the archetypical "this has been done before on slashdot" post.

  2. Re:Bill Gates quoted saying: by Fallen+Seraph · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ok, now this time try looking things up :)

    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryDesktop .mspx

    HINT: 1993: Windows NT 3.1, paragraph 2

  3. Re:Fixed by eraser.cpp · · Score: 3, Informative

    To be fair, this is Microsoft Research we're talking about. They don't (directly) exist to fill Microsoft's pockets and mostly research problems/ideas broadly related to computer science. Many famous figures in CS work there, including the creators of LaTeX and Quicksort.

  4. Re:Fixed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Never mind that someone made that same wisecrack here half an hour earlier, Karma whore.

  5. Re:Fixed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The Amiga had this... you could play Lemmings with two mice.

  6. Re:Fixed by Coryoth · · Score: 3, Informative

    give them credit where credit is due. The same research facility came up with another similar technology where you can attach multiple (unlimited) mice to a single PC and all operate independently. Remarkable. I bet no one has ever thought of that before. This is why Microsoft is so successful. They come up with these ideas first, and then implement basic research prototypes that will likely never appear in any shipping product. By comparison open source and X11 has only managed a complete system that lets you hotplug as many mice and keyboards as like that you can install and have working right now.
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  7. Re:Fixed by Coryoth · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, but with only one set of mouse pointer and keyboard focus. Uh, no. Watch the demo. You can have independent focus for each keyboard/mouse set that you care to hotplug in.
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