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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: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?

  2. 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!