I was rummaging around a box of cables the other day and came across this old Microsoft dock and thought – this still looks like a pretty cool piece of tech, I wonder if this thing still has any uses? I gave it power, hooked it up to an HDMI monitor, grabbed a Dell Latitude 7280 with a USB-C connector and connected up the dock – lo and behold, it works!Īll of the technical specs for the Microsoft Display Dock say it’s compatible only with certain Lumia devices, but it seems it’s quite happy to function as a dock/port-replicator for modern Windows 10 devices too.

My desk setup nowadays is a Lenovo P50 laptop/workstation connected to a couple of 24″ QHD Dell monitors via a Dell Universal Display Dock, it works well. Cool tech! Sadly, as Microsoft failed to make an impact in the phone market we all pretty much moved to Android or iOS – which consigned the phone and the dock to storage. It was supplied with a Microsoft Display Dock (HD-500), which you could hook up to the Lumia Phone, a Wireless Keyboard and Mouse and start using it as a mini Win10 desktop on a full screen monitor. I went through the phase of owning a Microsoft/Lumia 950 phone, it wasn’t a bad phone at all but it was let down with application support.

Free microsoft display dock lumia 950