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First, WinModems. Now, WinWiFi.
zulux writes "Microsoft is actively encouraging WiFi (802.11b) hardware manufacturers to strip their devices of costly electronics, and use Microsoft software/drivers to make up the slack. And you thought WinModems were bad!"
... Now Tom's Hardware can benchmark AMD's running WiFi.
"Derp de derp."
What's next? Software underwares to cut costs? Geez.
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Yeah, this new WinUnderwear requires that you open all of the Windows in your house in order for them to operate.
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Perhaps Microsoft wants to be a hardware company and has decided the easiest way to do that is to turn all hardware into software.
The only benefit to the consumer would be a slightly reduced cost. This proves that microsoft cares about us. Personally, I like my hardware to be OS specific, because it prevents me from doing foolish things such as installing so called "free" software (which is un-American, btw).
Ever try using a winmodem in linux? LOL, or in windows for that matter?
From the article:
The radio, about the size of a can of beer, extends the wire line and connects with any mobile devices
"...the size of a can of beer"? I love it! Let's keep this going.
Mobile devices can use a PCMCIA card, slightly smaller than a Hershey chocolate bar. Pocket computers can use a CompactFlash WiFi modem, slightly bigger than a "Fun Size" Hershey bar.
The WiFi base station connects to your computer, which of course is bigger than a bread box.
The wire line is your telephone line, which is about the size of a really, really long strand of spaghetti. This connects to the telephone office, which is about the size of a telephone office. This in turn connects you to the Internet, which is sort of hard to measure the size of... let's just say it is the size of the whole world and be done with it.
Hope this helps.
P.S. I wonder what percent of Slashdot readers actually know how big a bread box is?
steveha
lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely
You're forgetting the One Microsoft Way of thinking - Nobody needs to have enough machine to run more than one app at a time. If you buy more memory or CPU speed clearly the only possible reason you could have for doing so is to run a bigger application, never to run multiple applications - running more than one thing at a time? What, are you some kind of Unix propeller-head?
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
Oh man please tell me where you get your dope from as I havent had anything that good in years. Lets see the difference between microsoft or linux soft raid vs. my dual channel 64bit DPT u160 raid card with a 5/0 array. Guess which RAID system wins?
And this guy gets a 4?
Sorry, I was just chuckling at the idea of a Linux company actually developing something..
WinBoss - cannot work on anything but Microsoft Windows.
In no more than thirty words complete the sentence:
If Microsoft got into bio-engineering then....
Video Game cheats, hints a
Ok what is the exact definition of "hardware"?
The part of the computer you can kick when the fucking thing just won't cooperate.
--saint