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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. Crash! by gcostanzo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Can the two OS's crash into eachother?

  2. Re:Too late for April fools! by Threni · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sharing a screen using a high refresh rate and lcd glasses that shows each user alternate frames?

  3. Re:Fixed by timeOday · · Score: 5, Interesting

    if you can have each OS copy on a separate monitor (most cards today handle 2 monitors at least by standard), it's a really really good thing to have.
    Putting several terminals on a computer is a fine idea which has been done since long before the invention of the PC. But this is different; they are actually splitting a single screen in two. What a horrendous setup that is. And since the price of a display is superlinear in relation to its size, it wouldn't even be cheaper!
  4. Targeting tech support? by ushering05401 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It doesn't mention this in TFA, but tech support management apps that I have seen could easily fit on 1/2 a screen w/a tabbed interface. Your main tasks are to lookup the customers, record billable time, notate key points of the problem, read some stepped hep files, and pass it on if the fix is not simple.

    And considering this was developed in India there just might be something to this.

    Regards.