Easy-reading screens

IF YOU HAVE SEEN the three-screen vista used by Bill Gates, you might think he has set himself up for an eye exam. That’s the opinion voiced by third year students during Educast 52 in Tipperary Institute. What some people don’t see is the resolution on screens used by billg. Some of his screen resolution leverages e-reader software. With a good e-reader, you get text that looks like its paper original. I get two magazines with the Zinio e-reader. The print is sharp, the pages turn like the real thing and it’s fully searchable. And as Jack Schofield points out, “Such systems do more than feed editorial egos, because publishers are also looking to protect their content (making it harder to modify) and monetize it (via copy protection and by including paid advertisements).” That’s what drove Adobe Acrobat’s market up and what will encourage companies to move up to Vista and get the screen protection software with the operating system. You don’t need e-reader software to manage text across three screens. But having it on board makes it easy to stick with tedious tasks based on manipulating data in cells, rows and tables.

Robert Scoble – “New reading technology from Microsoft” Educast 52 –“Identity Markers, Workstyles and Creative Frameworks” Jack Schofield – “Reading the New York Times with Vista”