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The Mira (Smart Display) was a Microsoft initiative to use a portable touchscreen LCD monitor as a thin client for PCs, connecting via Wi-Fi.

Mira was announced by Bill Gates at the 2002 Consumer Electronics Show, released in early 2003 and cancelled in December 2003, having never achieved more than negligible market penetration.

The display ran Smart Display OS or Microsoft Windows CE for Smart Displays, based on Windows CE and .NET. The remote technology was based on Windows Terminal Server. Smart Display OS 1.0 would only connect to a Windows XP Professional host system, although some reported that any version of Windows could be remote-controlled using NetMeeting.

After having signed up several LCD manufacturers to work on the initiative, some of whom (such as LG) had Smart Display 1.5 products ready for early 2004 release, Microsoft finally announced the cancellation of the initiative on Monday 22 December 2003.


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VISTA
Pure junk. Vista is NOT user-friendly. It is cranky, stubborn, abusive, condescending, patronizing. The system WILL NOT multi-task. The most common notification that appears in the title bar says ( "Program Not Responding" ). The system can be jammed and hung simply by over-clicking any icon. The "Ctrl+Alt+Del" WILL NOT CLEAR the jam most of the time. The OFF button must be used to turn off the computer so you can reboot. Items that open and start quickly in XP take too long in Vista. Opening a folder on the desktop can sometimes make you wait as long as 2 minutes. The "activity light" blinks furiously, but you never really know just why. The system seems "too busy" to interact with you all too often. You feel as though perhaps you should have made an appointment!! Although many programs run in the background, it is incredibly easy to stall the system by trying to run "too many" user programs... such as e-mail, a browser, a solitaire card game, and perhaps a security scan simultaneously. Vista simply cannot handle the workload. ~ ~ I run 2 XP systems real-time along with a Vista system real-time and XP walks all over Vista 100% of the time. Vista is anemic, lethargic, and seems to be totally uninterested in the fact that you are trying to GET THINGS DONE. It has its priorities and they do not coincide with YOURS, so "tough luck pal". You feel like you are part of a leper colony. Vista barely acknowledges your existence most of the time. ~ ~ OK, it does work, but badly. It is simply "too confused", it seems. It always appears to be trying to catch up with whatever you are doing, but forgot how (but won't admit it). So, it makes a half-hearted attempt to get the job done and barely makes it. ~ ~ Vista is nothing but pure aggravation. The design engineers should be consigned to a life-time of using nothing BUT Vista for having the marked lack of intelligence when it came to even designing the thing (6 YEARS ???). My advice, stick with XP. Indefinitely.
Posted by: Jeff  —  Posted On: Aug 11, 2008 04:37 PM
Windows 7
I hope Windows 7 will not follow their descendant Vista + Win Me. I still like my XP.
Posted by: David Chang  —  Posted On: Aug 22, 2008 07:04 AM
I'm for Vista
Hi David,
I like the Vista.
I used it for 4 month and i didn't make me any problem yet.

I recommend Vista over all the OS i had.

Posted by: Design Website Software  —  Posted On: Oct 11, 2008 11:30 AM  —  Website: design-website-software.com
Microsoft Bob
I Like Bob. Always have. The only thing I didn't care for was that you couldn't assign programs to start when objects were clicked, they all came up as ugly boxes *yeach*. And I'm not the only person that I know that liked this program. The reason it didn't go over well is only because the idiot reviewers didn't like it. They didn't like it because they didn't get it. It was designed for people who were new to computers, and at the time of it's release there were only a few people who really understood computers and a lot of people who relied on the reviewers to tell them what to think instead of deciding for themselves. I read a review today on another site were the fellow admitted that he had reviewed the product without ever even trying it. He ran across the disk and decided to try it on XP. And surprise, surprise, he didn't care for it. Why? Because it was too simplistic for him as an advanced user. Well, DUH! It wasn't designed for advanced users. It is a shame that Bob was shelved as a product. I believe it would still be a good program if updated. Excellent for teaching computer basics to children and the older user who still doesn't understand this whole "web thing".
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