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1. newscientist2000

   
   Posted on: March 19, 2007 at 11:41PM  

   Nice setup, I remember reading somewhere that Bill Gates has a 3 monitor set up

   http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/30/news/newsmakers/gates_howiwork_fortune/

   I wonder if there is someone at Microsoft who uses more than 4 monitors??

   I can actually see the logic of having more that one monitor in a work environment, and with LCDs smaller and more flexible than ever you can add a few monitors without sacraficing to much desk space.

   Talking of desk space

   I just realised how much desk space Im wasting at home with my 19" CRT and 27" Standard Def TV.  I never really realised how much space these things take up until the guy at sears tried to sell me a older 26" LCD HDTV for $350, and I was really, really tempted.  If it had a built in ATSC tuner I would have taken it, as I dont subscribe to cable I really need a ATSC tuner in my next TV.  But since ATSC is now mandated all newer HDTVs should have it by Black Friday which will be sweet :-)
2. slimCODE

   
   Posted on: March 19, 2007 at 11:53PM  

   I'd be very interested in knowing what tools your colleague uses to manage application windows across his multiple monitors. Does he use UltraMon, or something similar? I created such an application called slimKEYS (actually the slimSIZE plug-in is the one handling windows across monitors) and I need feedback from people using multiple monitors, about their needs or frustrations (if any) in that setup.
3. terri

   

   
   Posted on: March 20, 2007 at 12:01AM  

   I've used dual monitors for years, primarily because it was so easy to leave my doc with all my standard help files up as I worked on the newsgroups.

   I'll admit that now, that second monitor is now a TV that's usually running something through Media Center.
4. newscientist2000

   
   Posted on: March 20, 2007 at 12:06AM  

   Yeah I noticed the one webcam.  Kinda looks lonely on the one monitor!

   Is there some secret lab at Microsoft where multiple cameras are used to reconstruct faces etc using the image data from multiple cameras located at slightly different angles.

   Kinda like this:

   http://www.hytekautomation.com/Products/StereoWebcam.html

   I guess multiple webcams wouldnt make us any more productive at work, still interesting though.
5. paulfp

   
   Posted on: March 20, 2007 at 1:59AM  

   Very nice, but is that a cable i see coming from the mouse? *shock* isn't it a wireless desktop too?

   And from an interior design point of view, I'd get a black mouse to match the monitors and keyboard ;)
6. salmonmoose

   
   Posted on: March 20, 2007 at 2:14AM  

   "Is there some secret lab at Microsoft where multiple cameras are used to reconstruct faces etc using the image data from multiple cameras located at slightly different angles."

   No need, it's already been done:

   http://store.cgsociety.org/product/000088/

   The same technology as seen in oblivion :)
7. WarMace

   
   Posted on: March 20, 2007 at 10:56AM  

   I have been crying for games to support multiple monitors for years.

   And im not talking about Matrox style spanning, i mean games designed to place chat/equipment/etc in secondary screens to free up the main screen for the game itself.

   MechWarrior would be a great candidate, too bad it hasen't seen a breath of life since MWO was canned.
8. PhilipE.

   
   Posted on: March 20, 2007 at 11:36AM  

   Pretty neat setup.

   We have been supplying multi-monitor solutions to the CAD/CAM industry specifically since the late when we could run multiple PCI video cards on any XP.

   Current Intel 975XBX series have three (3) PCI-E 16x style slots. 2 are wired 8x when they have video cards in them, the third will run at 4x with a video card plugged in iirc.

   We have one neat setup that we put together recently: x1900xtx, x1900 XFire, running 1 24" LCD in the middle and 3 x 19" LCDs, one on each side of the 24 and one above it. The one above the 24" is mounted via a telescoping monitor mounting pole. Works very well.

   Philip E.
9. Titan602

   
   Posted on: March 20, 2007 at 11:56AM  

   Yet another new feature to vista! It must take ages to move the cursor from the the very left monitor to the very right one!
10. n4cer

    
    Posted on: March 20, 2007 at 5:13PM  

    Multiple monitor support is not new to Vista. While Vista offers some improvements in this area, Windows has supported multiple monitors since Windows 98. With mouse acceleration, moving between the boundaries of a multi-monitor desktop can be comparable to the same operation on a single monitor.