"The Garage" is a Microsoft project which is a company wide program that encourages grass roots invention, tinkering, ideas and incubation of projects. In The Garage,employees get together after hours to build whatever they dream up and the results are often impressive.
99.9% of the Garage projects either ship as part of a Microsoft project or remain internal, but every once in a while there’s a project that doesn’t fit into any existing Microsoft product which will get a lot of request from employees who want to be able to share it with their friends and families.
Same thing goes with "Mouse Without Borders" tool which allows you to reach across your PC's as if they were part of one single desktop. Suppose you have two PCs connected to 3 LCD screens. Using "Mouse Without Borders" you can move your mouse between the 3 screens. What’s more, you can move files between the 2 computers simply by dragging them from one desktop to another.
You can control up to four computers from a single mouse and keyboard with no extra hardware needed. It’s all software magic, developed by Truong Do who by day is a developed for Microsoft Dynamics.
The software is easy to setup and in addition to enabling drag and drop of files, you can lock or log in to all PCs from one PC, and as a whimsical bonus is it allows you to customize your Windows logon screen with the daily image from Bing or a local collection of pictures.
Following is a video that explains and shows Mouse Without Borders in action:
You can download it using following link:
Download Mouse Without Borders
Thanks to our reader "Vikram" for sharing it...
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jels
HOLY!
Kowalski
Unbelievable! Microsoft software with new, fresh approach! Looks quite useful! Wonder if it actually works? Mmm, let me guess: Windows7 only? Mmm, I rather stay with: synergy-foss.org
Prashant Ghai
Everything looks good.
How I wish somebody told them that their Metro design is plain ugly and does not look good as a default look for an OS.
sasja
nothing special, you can control 5×5 screens with linux. but handy for the windows users.
most people have 1 screen.
macpro622776
awesome. that now pretty much puts the hardware devices that do a similar thing with the single keyboard and mouse out of use.
Christian
2 screens are already confusing...
Wheew...
Madis
Thing like that for 1 screen was in Windows 95 (or 98) too :D
Nunja Business
There are two products that this looks like a copy of.
The main problem is, it is just the mouse and no keyboard sharing so - limited value.
Input Director (inputdirector.com/) uses both mouse and KB. And Synergy (synergy-foss.org/) uses both and works on OSx and Linux.
Nunja Business
Also, the video is really just a commercial, worthless since it doesn't actually even show the product.
seahorsepip
would like to know if this is possible to use with just usb or bluetooth :/