Comments on: Vista-linked wireless E Ink e-reader, due in November: Hint of other, better possibilities? http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/vista-linked-wireless-e-ink-e-reader-due-in-november-hint-of-other-better-possibilities/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:02:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mike Cane http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/vista-linked-wireless-e-ink-e-reader-due-in-november-hint-of-other-better-possibilities/comment-page-1/#comment-578868 Mike Cane Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:50:09 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7293#comment-578868 It may well go beyond Microsoft, but that doesn't mean there's a market for these things. I never heard of the Smart Display issues you cited before now. Nor do I think did most people. It still failed. We are at least a generation away from the Star Trek: TNG imagery of totable wireless always-connected tablets of this kind -- in-home satellites of the desktop or home server. But before then, we'll have Apple doing a tablet (or mini-tablet) right. It may well go beyond Microsoft, but that doesn’t mean there’s a market for these things. I never heard of the Smart Display issues you cited before now. Nor do I think did most people. It still failed. We are at least a generation away from the Star Trek: TNG imagery of totable wireless always-connected tablets of this kind — in-home satellites of the desktop or home server. But before then, we’ll have Apple doing a tablet (or mini-tablet) right.

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/vista-linked-wireless-e-ink-e-reader-due-in-november-hint-of-other-better-possibilities/comment-page-1/#comment-578851 David Rothman Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:22:27 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7293#comment-578851 Nice and pithy, Mike, thanks, but you also need to consider this, from the cited source: "In Smart Display OS 1.0, the display would lock the host PC to it while in use. Microsoft variously attributed this to licensing issues (that Windows XP Professional was licensed for one user per running copy [1]) and resource management problems. The requirements of licensing — not to allow the devices to work standalone, not to allow the device to connect to the host PC while the PC's main screen was active and not to allow multiple Miras to control one PC — were widely derided in the press." See why I'm really rooting for this concept to go beyond Microsoft? Thanks, David Nice and pithy, Mike, thanks, but you also need to consider this, from the cited source: “In Smart Display OS 1.0, the display would lock the host PC to it while in use. Microsoft variously attributed this to licensing issues (that Windows XP Professional was licensed for one user per running copy [1]) and resource management problems. The requirements of licensing — not to allow the devices to work standalone, not to allow the device to connect to the host PC while the PC’s main screen was active and not to allow multiple Miras to control one PC — were widely derided in the press.”

See why I’m really rooting for this concept to go beyond Microsoft?

Thanks,
David

]]> By: Ghillie Suits » Vista-linked wireless E Ink e-reader, due in November: Hint of other, better possibilities? http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/vista-linked-wireless-e-ink-e-reader-due-in-november-hint-of-other-better-possibilities/comment-page-1/#comment-578804 Ghillie Suits » Vista-linked wireless E Ink e-reader, due in November: Hint of other, better possibilities? Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:16:30 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7293#comment-578804 [...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerptA slim E Ink tablet that links wirelessly to a Vista PC will debut in November, according to the home page at Ricavision . [...] [...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerptA slim E Ink tablet that links wirelessly to a Vista PC will debut in November, according to the home page at Ricavision . [...]

]]> By: Mike Cane http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/vista-linked-wireless-e-ink-e-reader-due-in-november-hint-of-other-better-possibilities/comment-page-1/#comment-578774 Mike Cane Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:58:20 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7293#comment-578774 Immediate FAIL. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Display Dismissed. Move on. Immediate FAIL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Display

Dismissed. Move on.

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