Mouse without Borders

The current “cool” thing is to have more than one monitor on your workstation.

But, what if you have multiple computers that you regularly use at your office or workbench? Perhaps your primary workstation with two screens, a laptop you are using for some development work, and your server?

Up until now, you would either have three keyboards/mice, or you would be using a KVM (keyboard/video/mouse) device to share between the computers.

But now you have another choice — Mouse without Borders

Mouse without Borders (MWB) was developed in Microsoft’s “The Garage” – a company wide program that encourages grass roots invention, tinkering and exploring new ideas.

With MWB you can use one mouse and one keyboard to control up to four separate computers, with no additional hardware! Not only can you move your mouse seamlessly from screen to screen, but just like you can move (drag) a file from one folder to another, you can drag files and folders from one computer to another with MWB!

Note: AFAIK, it only works with Windows operating systems. Give it a try!

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