Apparently tomorrow Bill Gates is going to show off some new “Vista Compatible” hardware during his CES keynote.   I don’t normally follow such things, but I I saw a cool looking photo set on Cnet.   And one of them was this:

Toshiba’s Portege R400, also to be shown off by Gates Sunday, will be among the first PCs to include a SideShow auxiliary display, one of the new hardware features supported by Windows Vista.

WTF?   I think someone at Toshiba is having some fun at Microsoft’s expense…   This is certainly in homage to the original (and iconic) Apple Macintosh ad:

I can’t imagine this was an intentional move by MS.   Congrats to whoever sneaked this by legal/marketing.

This entry was posted on Saturday, January 20th, 2007 at 2:31 pm and is filed under other. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.