[typish]

This is something Plan 9 or Inferno (http://inferno-os.org/) would give you. You can run the main OS someone and mount the resources on other devices - including display, net and CPU resources. An example of doing this with a phone is here: http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2012/11/07/sharing-computer-and-pho...

Inferno is a portable and can be run on host operating systems. It would be possible to build it as an app on Windows Phone, Android, etc to access your Inferno resources on other devices.

[rcarmo]

I'm sorry, but no. The resource sharing model of Plan9/Inferno is great, but what they demoed was essentially a modal UI - plug in your phone and you get an external display and a different UI, but the computing resources are still handled in exactly the same way.

[typish]

I'm not sure what you mean. When I said that this is what Inferno provides I was referring to the parent posts request for their ideal computing model, not comparing to the Microsoft demo.