Longhorn will introduce Laptop lid displays

md5 · Feb 10, 2005, 02:05 PM

Microsoft wants PC makers to mount mobile-phone-like displays on the lids of laptop computers so users can check the time, battery status, appointments or see if new e-mail has arrived without having to open and start up their PC.

The software giant is including support for such displays in the next version of Windows, codenamed Longhorn, due out in 2006. Microsoft is developing software and reference designs for the displays, which it says will give users instant access to select data and save time and battery life because there is no need to open and boot up the PC.

The display on the lid of a laptop would be similar to a color cell phone display and powered by the notebook battery. Data pulled out of applications would be stored in a special memory cache so it is also accessible when the PC is turned off or in standby mode, said Sriram Viji, a program manager working on the "auxiliary displays" at Microsoft.

In a presentation at the VSLive and Windows Anywhere developer event in San Francisco on Wednesday, Viji showed a picture of an auxiliary display showing a menu of options that included calendar, contacts, tasks, inbox and media player. The picture also showed a set of buttons to allow users to navigate the menu.

In addition to displaying cached data, applications for the auxiliary display could be programmed to periodically wake up the PC, connect to the Internet, synchronize data and update that on the display, Viji said.

Read more at Techworld

pr0digal jenius · Feb 10, 2005, 05:05 PM

so they don't have time for WinFS, but do have time for this crap?

BlueMak · Feb 10, 2005, 06:56 PM

I am sure that the virus writers will not take advantage of this at all.

EcPercy · Feb 10, 2005, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by pr0digal jenius

so they don't have time for WinFS, but do have time for this crap?

LOL!!! I was thinking this before I even read any of the comments.

Let them do what they will. I have had it with Microsoft and have fully migrated my home desktop to linux. As soon as I have my bsd firewall built my windows server is out too.

Lelisevis · Feb 11, 2005, 02:49 AM

Wouldn't it be great if you could extract the game compatibility part from windows and bin the rest. With emulators for everything else these days surely someone must be working on it.

Here's one for the MS guys......Windows XP Purely Gaming Edition. Im going to get onto the European courts now. It's my right and microsoft have had a monopoly on gaming for long enough LOL. Look out Bill.

BlueMak · Feb 11, 2005, 03:00 AM

I agree! If I could have an OS where it would be as simple as Atari TOS, with the gaming compatibility of MS Windows, I would be in heaven, or something.

Feb 10, 2005, 02:05 PM	#1
md5 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Inside DriverHeaven Posts: 856 Rep Power: 0	Longhorn will introduce Laptop lid displays Microsoft wants PC makers to mount mobile-phone-like displays on the lids of laptop computers so users can check the time, battery status, appointments or see if new e-mail has arrived without having to open and start up their PC. The software giant is including support for such displays in the next version of Windows, codenamed Longhorn, due out in 2006. Microsoft is developing software and reference designs for the displays, which it says will give users instant access to select data and save time and battery life because there is no need to open and boot up the PC. The display on the lid of a laptop would be similar to a color cell phone display and powered by the notebook battery. Data pulled out of applications would be stored in a special memory cache so it is also accessible when the PC is turned off or in standby mode, said Sriram Viji, a program manager working on the "auxiliary displays" at Microsoft. In a presentation at the VSLive and Windows Anywhere developer event in San Francisco on Wednesday, Viji showed a picture of an auxiliary display showing a menu of options that included calendar, contacts, tasks, inbox and media player. The picture also showed a set of buttons to allow users to navigate the menu. In addition to displaying cached data, applications for the auxiliary display could be programmed to periodically wake up the PC, connect to the Internet, synchronize data and update that on the display, Viji said. Read more at Techworld __________________

Feb 10, 2005, 06:56 PM	#3
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,483 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	I am sure that the virus writers will not take advantage of this at all. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Feb 11, 2005, 03:00 AM	#6
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,483 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	I agree! If I could have an OS where it would be as simple as Atari TOS, with the gaming compatibility of MS Windows, I would be in heaven, or something. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Feb 10, 2005, 05:05 PM	#2
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	so they don't have time for WinFS, but do have time for this crap?

Feb 11, 2005, 02:49 AM	#5
Lelisevis Howlin at the moon Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,663 Rep Power: 0	Wouldn't it be great if you could extract the game compatibility part from windows and bin the rest. With emulators for everything else these days surely someone must be working on it. Here's one for the MS guys......Windows XP Purely Gaming Edition. Im going to get onto the European courts now. It's my right and microsoft have had a monopoly on gaming for long enough LOL. Look out Bill.