Windows Vista hasn't exactly vaulted its way to the top of the personal-computing business -- it only secured a 30 percent share of the market last week, as measured by one Web-statistics firm -- but one of that operating system's more-hyped components already looks close to dead.
That would be the "SideShow" feature Microsoft that allows Vista Home Premium and other, more expensive editions of the operating system to display a subset of relevant information on a small, secondary screen. For instance, a laptop's lid could embed a compact SideShow monitor listing new e-mail messages or upcoming appointments.
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