A commentor has accused me of engaging in "sour grapes." However, sour grapes would be if I said "Well, the Kerry Administration would have sucked, too."
What I'm doing is "crying over spilt milk"
But as far as software development goes, Microsoft is developing a new SDK to promote the use of “Auxiliary displays” or “Aux displays” in laptops. What's interesting about this is that the actual display is the least important aspect: far more important is the transformation of a closed laptop from a brick to a very-low-power-consumption state that has some computational capabilities (REM sleep, if you will...).