Re: SharedView - Control Remote Computer While They Watch (tech Support) It looks interesting, but it is no big deal.
Windows already has Remote Desktop Connection - but if you connect to some one else with RDC they will be logged out - but you get *full* control over their machine. Windows also has Windows Remote Assistance where you share your desktop to someone else and can see what they are doing (similar to SharedView). Both RDC and WRA are part of Windows.
In addition there are many commercial apps that allow you to share your desktop, and hackers like to port scan to see if they are running on a target machine! One to look out for is VNC (there some free versions, and some commercial versions) which work well over a network. Since it is free and works well, network admins like to install it on users machines, and that is a hacker's dream (most network admins are a bit dim, but think they are god).
However, from what I can see SharedView is a nice app if you want to share your desktop, for example to allow you to telecommute. If there is a way to share sound through this then you could have virtual meetings without going to work! If they don't have sound, then you can use Skype. Microsoft already has a commercial product to do virtual meetings called Live Meeting that costs a lot of money in subscriptions, so this SharedView *could* be a way for a small business to save a lot of money.
Richard |