Do you own (and / or use) a device compatible with Windows SideShow?


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I must admit that I am disappointed that there are no replies to this topic. There must be some Neowinians who have used the technology?

To some Windows SideShow may seem like a poor attempt by Microsoft within the mobile space, but it was innovative and enabled many new scenarios which predated the

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Sounds like a bunch of stuff that my smartphone already does, so I guess it would have made sense in 2006 but not now.  Microsoft should have just invested more time into their smartphone business instead of wasting their time with this. IMO.

  On 29/03/2015 at 19:32, siah1214 said:

Sounds like a bunch of stuff that my smartphone already does, so I guess it would have made sense in 2006 but not now.  Microsoft should have just invested more time into their smartphone business instead of wasting their time with this. IMO.

Exactly. I didn't even know the functionality existed and smartphones completely replace and surpass its functionality.

Hello,

 

I thought this was really cool when it came out.  I think either Asus or Acer made a laptop that supported it, but never used one, myself.

 

Regards,

 

Aryeh Goretsky

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  On 30/03/2015 at 19:41, WndSks said:

Perhaps in two years time when MS gets their inevitable smartwatch clone out on the market but the API will probably be different... 

 

The Band came out last year!

  On 30/03/2015 at 19:51, Eric said:

Pfft... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink came out in 1994. Clone? Nah.  :p

 

Good point. How'd I forget the Datalink? It was my college graduation present!

  On 30/03/2015 at 19:45, DConnell said:

The Band came out last year!

Yes that's true but you know how this goes. Somebody makes something. Apple makes a better version. Everybody tries to emulate the Apple version :rofl:

 

MS were too early with both TabletPC and MediaCenter and they never caught on, a couple of years later and everyone is using tablets and streaming/media sharing...

  On 30/03/2015 at 19:56, WndSks said:

Yes that's true but you know how this goes. Somebody makes something. Apple makes a better version. Everybody tries to emulate the Apple version :rofl:

 

MS were too early with both TabletPC and MediaCenter and they never caught on, a couple of years later and everyone is using tablets and streaming/media sharing...

 

The Surface is completely different from the iPad, apart from general shape. The didn't emulate - they took the idea and improved. Kind of like how Apple always claims they do. :laugh:

 

And like Eric pointed out, Microsoft beat everyone to the smartwatch by about 2 decades!

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  On 30/03/2015 at 05:09, goretsky said:

Hello,

 

I thought this was really cool when it came out.  I think either Asus or Acer made a laptop that supported it, but never used one, myself.

 

Regards,

 

Aryeh Goretsky

I believe that you had referred to the ASUS W5Fe?

  On 30/03/2015 at 05:14, Jared- said:

Pretty sure I saw some sort of display on top of a Dell tower desktop that played with that sometime in that era. 

Dell XPS 420?

Hello,

The ASUS unit, I think.  By the way, here's an Intel prototype from 2009 that places three miniature screens above the keyboard:  http://www.itpro.co.uk/615496/intel-shows-off-four-screen-laptop

These days, I think people are more likely to use their smartphone to glance at things so Windows SideShow is no longer of as much interest.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky


 

  On 21/09/2015 at 05:07, goretsky said:

The ASUS unit, I think.  By the way, here's an Intel prototype from 2009 that places three miniature screens above the keyboard:  http://www.itpro.co.uk/615496/intel-shows-off-four-screen-laptop

Thank you for responding, Goretsky.

There were quite a few interesting devices / prototypes designed for Windows SideShow, including:

  On 21/09/2015 at 05:07, goretsky said:

These days, I think people are more likely to use their smartphone to glance at things so Windows SideShow is no longer of as much interest.

I just wish that the feature would have received widespread adoption.

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