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CNET News - Microsoft Display Dock connects your phone to your monitor

2015-10-06
this is my phone and I can prove it in a couple ways up here you can see my signal bars I only got one because we're in this deep building I'm gonna open up this mail app now and actually click though my gosh y'all are blowing up Twitter I forgot that my demo account he is my twitter handle that was bad let me scroll down there cool here's my mail from Todd and you can see I have a couple couple documents here what I'm gonna do now is just open up some stuff to get ready to get productive i'm gonna open up word with a double click because there's something in there I got to get to to do and now once that Lowe's member this is look this is the word universal mobile app word mobile it's now scaling this is the one that comes on the phone it's scaling to look great on this screen and look all the functionality respect is there the Welcome Back messages there with one click it takes me to our where I was in this document last right and I want to go back and open some other stuff so how do i multitask more PC like experience look down here my taskbar has my icons like you'd expect the one that's running is highlighted like you would expect with one click on outlook I can jump to that app and utilize it like you would expect on a pc except this is actually a what it's our phone that's right so i'll double-click powerpoint now to open that up so i'm getting my stuff ready you got to get this deck done because Todd's texting me in the middle of this so it must be super important and right now I just want to pause this is pretty cool I showed you the taskbar but look I can bring up this task switcher and also bring that up who's use this task switcher on Windows 10 right now it looks the same ok now I'm going to pause before I do the actual cool office stuff that i'm going to show you with the copy and pasting just to prove to you that my phone is is is powering this we're gonna cut now to a side-by-side i'm going to show you while I'm doing this my phone is still a phone you can see up here I'm connected to my monitor but look I can go back to my Start menu I can navigate things I could open up and start texting people my actual phone experience is not broken while I'm utilizing the desktop experience of continuum and neither is the one here each experience is in the independent and uninterruptedly front but the phone is powering this whole thing now while I have this open side by side I want to show you something kind of cool i talked about the power of these universal apps how they can scale the screen sizes watch this right here on my monitor the phone is pushing the outlook universal app right watch this i'm going to open it on the phone and you're actually going to see it collapse and scale down to the phone that's the power of a universal app in action this app does not care what screen size it is it just adapts in real time it looks great what do you think of that yeah but now I gotta do some stuff in PowerPoint so let me let me get into nitty gritty actually show you this I'm gonna jump over the word cuz I have to put a table in the middle of this deck that's what the mail said so look at this here's word I want to put this table there guess what I can select it and even though my phone is powering this I can use all the keyboard shortcuts I'm familiar with so actually on my keyboard now we're going to cut to a camera you can see my hand make sure that comes up there I actually want to do old controls see and guess how I'll switch how about I try a little bit of alt tab just to jump over the powerpoint I'll tab on my phone to switch between office apps that's insane and I'll just go ahead and do ctrl-v to paste that table I am not fitting the purple even though I'm wearing it so maybe I'm a little bit of a hypocrite I'm going to jump to the little slate there and get the rich formatting at the table the way that I want it easy to move it into place okay is that insane the phone is doing this
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