Microsoft Garage releases Mouse Without Borders
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Re: Microsoft Garage releases Mouse Without Borders
#2I have been doing this for years...http://synergy-foss.org/
Re: Microsoft Garage releases Mouse Without Borders
#3Revolutionary! Despite competing open source projects that have been around for years with more features and no arbitrary limitations of four computers.
Re: Microsoft Garage releases Mouse Without Borders
#4Before you pass this off as a Synergy clone, check this out:
> As Microsoft's Steve Clayton explains, "I have two PC’s on my desk at work connected to 3 LCD screens and using Mouse Without Borders I can move my mouse between the 3 screens, even though one of them is attached to a different PC from the other two. What’s more, I can move files between the 2 computers simply by dragging them from one desktop to another."
> In addition to the file movement features, Mouse Without Borders also allows the user to log onto all the PCs linked together by the program via just one PC.
So yes, more than just a limited Synergy.
Re: Microsoft Garage releases Mouse Without Borders
#5Before you pass this off as a Synergy clone, check this out: > As Microsoft's Steve Clayton explains, "I have two PC’s on my desk at work connected to 3 LCD screens and using Mouse Without Borders I can move my mouse between the 3 screens, even though one of them is attached to a different PC from the other two. What’s more, I can move files between the 2 computers simply by dragging them from one desktop to another.…
So the question is do you need a whole separate unit within a company to create this "innovation"? Sometimes in microsoft land "innovation" == "not reading widely enough".
Re: Microsoft Garage releases Mouse Without Borders
#6Revolutionary! Despite competing open source projects that have been around for years with more features and no arbitrary limitations of four computers.
When all your progress comes from a single source, you tend to consider anything that comes from there revolutionary.
Re: Microsoft Garage releases Mouse Without Borders
#7Before you pass this off as a Synergy clone, check this out: > As Microsoft's Steve Clayton explains, "I have two PC’s on my desk at work connected to 3 LCD screens and using Mouse Without Borders I can move my mouse between the 3 screens, even though one of them is attached to a different PC from the other two. What’s more, I can move files between the 2 computers simply by dragging them from one desktop to another.…
So the question is do you need a whole separate unit within a company to create this "innovation"? Sometimes in microsoft land "innovation" == "not reading widely enough".
You don't, however, I think the article is playing up the word "innovation" a bit too much. All I see is some guy (who works for Microsoft) writing a program to make his life a little easier.
Re: Microsoft Garage releases Mouse Without Borders
#8Before you pass this off as a Synergy clone, check this out: > As Microsoft's Steve Clayton explains, "I have two PC’s on my desk at work connected to 3 LCD screens and using Mouse Without Borders I can move my mouse between the 3 screens, even though one of them is attached to a different PC from the other two. What’s more, I can move files between the 2 computers simply by dragging them from one desktop to another.…
So the question is do you need a whole separate unit within a company to create this "innovation"? Sometimes in microsoft land "innovation" == "not reading widely enough".
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Re: Microsoft Garage releases Mouse Without Borders
#9Before you pass this off as a Synergy clone, check this out: > As Microsoft's Steve Clayton explains, "I have two PC’s on my desk at work connected to 3 LCD screens and using Mouse Without Borders I can move my mouse between the 3 screens, even though one of them is attached to a different PC from the other two. What’s more, I can move files between the 2 computers simply by dragging them from one desktop to another.…
So the question is do you need a whole separate unit within a company to create this "innovation"? Sometimes in microsoft land "innovation" == "not reading widely enough".
The Garage is a community, not a paid group (sometimes this isn't clear to folks outside of MS).
The point you should take from this news though, is that Microsoft is now helping its developers release their projects they hack on in their spare time as Microsoft, if they meet the quality bars as well as being popular / useful enough inside Microsoft.
Re: Microsoft Garage releases Mouse Without Borders
#10Will give this a shot since maybe since its by microsoft it will integrate a bit better but yeah its nothing new. Many of you already brought up synergy as doing this same function which is true, I used to use that, but for the past 3 or so years I've been using Input Director (http://www.inputdirector.com/) which also does the file transfer thing. I don't really see this being any different then Input Director..