Mouse Without Borders
Mouse Without Borders is a program recently released by Microsoft’s The Garage that allows your keyboard and mouse to travel between two networked computers. It’s a simple install process and once you enter the verification code and name of the computer you are connecting to, you simply setup what direction each of the computers are in relation to one another and you are all set. It also enables copy/paste and file transfer across computers.
There are a few downsides as it appears to be Windows only, highly persistent (you can’t kill the process unless you run task manager in administration mode), and completely incompatible with gaming because the program thinks you are trying to move your mouse off-screen even though you are in a full-screen application. Memory usage is fairly reasonable for a KVM program.
Overall, it’s a sweet app, and if you need to use multiple computers at a single desk regularly (and you don’t care about gaming) give it a shot or read more.
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Interesting – any idea if it works with remote virtual machines? That would be the ultimate in cool.
Not sure why you would want to do that. This software is not a remote desktop replacement, it only allows you to reproduce mouse and keyboard inputs, not the screen. So really, it’s only useful when you have two computers right next to each other (both with screens). If you are trying to do something else that I’m not thinking of, you could hook it up with a virtual LAN using software like Hamachi.