So many users, so few personal computers — a problem faced by many educational institutions trying to give their students the Internet advantage.
Empathising with this challenge, scientists at the Bangalore unit of Microsoft Research have come up with a clever piece of software that will double the number of simultaneous users for every PC.
They have done this by giving the display monitor a ‘split personality’: while the left hand half of the screen works with one keyboard-mouse combo, the right hand can be controlled by another set.
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