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Scoble thinks he knows why Smart Displays failed - he says it's cost of the display units. Partially, but that's not the major reason - the major reason was client OS licenses. Consider a presumed home user of this:
Server in the closet
4 Smart Displays
Not only do you need to lay out $1K per display, you need to lay out for multiple revs of XP, or figure out how to set up Terminal Services (or Citrix). What you really want is something like X11 (technically speaking). I suppose the biggest issue is Microsoft's business model - their model really, really wants you to buy more clients, and a terminal type usage pattern just doesn't fit that.
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