Longhorn to support auxiliary displays

Posted on Thursday, February 10 2005 @ 14:44 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Microsoft disclosed that the beta version of Longhorn will include support for "auxiliary displays". Auxiliary displays may come in many forms; such as displays attachted or build into laptops or software add-ons to cell phones, PDAs, TVs and other devices.

Microsoft Corp. first talked about the auxiliary display concept at the Windows Hardware Engineering conference in 2004. And Intel Corp. showed a prototype of a device with an auxiliary display affixed to a laptop lid at its Intel Developer Forum conference last fall.

More info at eWeek

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