Soon you would be able to carry your desktop with you. Software giant, Microsoft has partnered with flash memory maker, SanDisk Corp. to build new generation of USB drives and memory cards, which will allow users to carry their personal desktop and applications to any Windows PC.
This joint venture will develop an alternative for SanDisk’s U3 Smart Technology, the existing platform securing USB and memory card data and running applications directly from a flash drive and customizing public computers with a user’s own settings. Microsoft would be responsible for the new software, while SanDisk will handle the hardware of the USB drive.
Users would be able to carry ‘computer on stick’ device to any public or shared Windows XP or Vista machine. They can plug in and begin working with familiar tools and personalized setting. When they remove the drive or card, there would be no trace of the user’s work left on the PC.
The new device will allow users to carry their personal computing environment, including their customized and familiar user interface, applications and data on a flash storage device. Both companies have targeted to launch the window in second half of the year 2008.
According to Mike Langberg, SanDisk spokesman, the new device is taking U3 to the next level. The new platform will perform those applications, which are not possible with U3 like E-commerce or personal finance or corporate applications storing data securely, or premium content like movies, downloaded to the drive. Now users would be to play the movie on any machine of Internet cafe.
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Via: EE Times
