Microsoft Turning Phones into PCs Feels Like the Future

One of the great advances in Microsoft's developer conference last week was to create the ability to turn a smartphone with Windows 10 on a PC. Dubbed Continuum for phones, which is designed to take advantage of new Universal applications that run on Windows 10 via phones, computers, tablets, and the Xbox One. If you use a mobile version of Excel on your phone that art magic resize and become a version of the keyboard of the environment and use a larger mouse on the screen. It feels like the future.

While Microsoft has just shown a simulation mocked up on stage to generate, in a separate company provided a complete demonstration of mobile Continuum, with more information on the role of session. It works by connecting to a dock or wireless cable using Miracast. Microsoft has even supports wireless dongle you use your phone as a controller with a touch screen and a keyboard software.

The phone interface scales to a large screen or on television, and the start menu is the same tiles that are on the phone to provide access to applications. Although it seems that the office of Windows 10, there are some subtle differences, and traditional desktop applications will not work here. In a way, it feels like the natural successor to Windows RT, but is actually useful if developers create Universal Applications needed to really enjoy.

Microsoft seems to show strong even with a few glitches here and there, thanks to the nature at the beginning of the software. the Company's own applications all continued as planned to enjoy the big screen. There are also ways for developers and applications to take advantage of the extra screen as a second, allowing you to broadcast a movie on one screen while reading emails from your phone.

Microsoft is really the target is in emerging markets, where a phone is the primary computing device, which is an area where this type of functionality can be popular. But it is not the only company trying to turn a phone to a PC. Canonical done similar things with keyboards with USB connection for your phone Ubuntu OS, and Motorola tried to sell an expensive Atrix phone holder turn your PC into a Android. Other solutions, including REDFLY has not been so successful due to lack of applications and the widest support. Microsoft's implementation could be limited due the same way the small market Windows phones, but other solutions have the support of a software giant company or reflective natural interface. Microsoft's solution feels like the best to date.

There are clear obstacles to over come, but Microsoft has great ambitions for Continuum. "In reality, the vision of a world in which more screens phones and experiences, each screen can become a PC is on," said Keri Moran, a program manager for Windows at Microsoft. That could involve laptops have a keyboard and a screen, but processors are not stored indoors, such as an external telephone will do the fieldwork. The same goes for tablets, where you have an ultra-thin display device with a single battery, all powered by a telephone. If Microsoft can convince developers to create Windows applications and universal consumers to buy phones running Windows, and it certainly feels like the future.