{"id":152,"date":"2022-09-19T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retronetwork.net\/subsites\/wow\/?p=152"},"modified":"2023-11-10T04:36:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T04:36:17","slug":"the-forgotten-designs-of-windows-sideshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/retronetwork.net\/subsites\/wow\/2022\/09\/19\/the-forgotten-designs-of-windows-sideshow\/","title":{"rendered":"The forgotten designs of Windows Sideshow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:9a3761b1-3d02-4e93-ad49-db6e2fef4ce5\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Flickr Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/tags\/windows-sideshow\" rel=\"tag\">windows-sideshow<\/a><\/div>\n<p>during the development of Windows Longhorn (Soon to become <a href=\"http:\/\/jackson.retronetwork.net\/wow\/2022\/09\/02\/the-various-windows-vista-designs\/\">Windows Vista<\/a>) in 2003 Microsoft introduced Windows Sideshow. one of the most unique features Windows Vista had<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackson.retronetwork.net\/wow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Figure5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"484\" alt=\"Windows Sideshow Beta\" src=\"http:\/\/jackson.retronetwork.net\/wow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Figure5_thumb.jpg\" width=\"364\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windows Sideshow displays information such as RSS feeds e-mail and other things on a separate display<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackson.retronetwork.net\/wow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Windows_SideShow.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"244\" alt=\"Final Windows Sideshow build running on device simulator\" src=\"http:\/\/jackson.retronetwork.net\/wow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Windows_SideShow_thumb.png\" width=\"324\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The product seemed cool Microsoft was even planing a hole ecosystem for it. There was even a windows media center remote with sideshow<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackson.retronetwork.net\/wow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ricovision-sideshow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"524\" alt=\"Unreleased Microsoft windows sideshow remote\" src=\"http:\/\/jackson.retronetwork.net\/wow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ricovision-sideshow_thumb.jpg\" width=\"394\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are different types of sideshow displays ranging from single line lcd&#8217;s to a full color lcd<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/retronetwork.net\/subsites\/wow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/sideshowdevices_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"114\" alt=\"SideShow devices illustration\" src=\"http:\/\/retronetwork.net\/subsites\/wow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/sideshowdevices_s_thumb.jpg\" width=\"501\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackson.retronetwork.net\/wow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sideshowdetach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"235\" alt=\"detachable Windows sideshow device prototype\" src=\"http:\/\/jackson.retronetwork.net\/wow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sideshowdetach_thumb.jpg\" width=\"435\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackson.retronetwork.net\/wow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sideshow_handheld_game2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"313\" alt=\"Unreleased Windows sideshow PDA \" src=\"http:\/\/jackson.retronetwork.net\/wow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sideshow_handheld_game2_thumb.jpg\" width=\"444\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were a handful of sideshow compatible devices released. Like the ASUS ScreenDUO<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackson.retronetwork.net\/wow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2-13-07-screenduo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"312\" alt=\"ASUS ScreenDUO\" src=\"http:\/\/jackson.retronetwork.net\/wow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2-13-07-screenduo_thumb.jpg\" width=\"444\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ASUS W5Fe (AKA the most popular sideshow device)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackson.retronetwork.net\/wow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/asus-w5fe-sideshow-right-back-angle_yu8e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"363\" alt=\"ASUS W5Fe Laptop\" src=\"http:\/\/jackson.retronetwork.net\/wow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/asus-w5fe-sideshow-right-back-angle_yu8e_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the Dell XPS 420<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackson.retronetwork.net\/wow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"316\" alt=\"Dell XPS 420 sideshow display\" src=\"http:\/\/jackson.retronetwork.net\/wow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/large_thumb.jpg\" width=\"444\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sadly for windows sideshow it wasn&#8217;t popular and support was removed in Windows 8.1. But you can still try Windows Sideshow out<\/p>\n<p>I have archived some sideshow gadgets which you can find <a href=\"http:\/\/retronetwork.net\/ftp\/Software\/Windows%20Sideshow\">here<\/a> via Retro Network&#8217;s FTP directory and if you can&#8217;t find a real windows sideshow device you can always download <a title=\"(REQUIRES MODERN BROWSER)\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.iml.sideshow_free&amp;hl=en&amp;gl=US\" target=\"_blank\">MS-Sideshow Device<\/a> for android via Google play<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"This post was made using Windows Live Writer\" src=\"http:\/\/jackson.retronetwork.net\/wow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/button3.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flickr Tags: windows-sideshow during the development of Windows Longhorn (Soon to become Windows Vista) in 2003 Microsoft introduced Windows Sideshow. one of the most unique features Windows Vista had Windows Sideshow displays information such as RSS feeds e-mail and other things on a separate display The product seemed cool Microsoft was even planing a hole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/retronetwork.net\/subsites\/wow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/retronetwork.net\/subsites\/wow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/retronetwork.net\/subsites\/wow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retronetwork.net\/subsites\/wow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retronetwork.net\/subsites\/wow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/retronetwork.net\/subsites\/wow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"http:\/\/retronetwork.net\/subsites\/wow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/retronetwork.net\/subsites\/wow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retronetwork.net\/subsites\/wow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retronetwork.net\/subsites\/wow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}