Microsoft To Make Wireless Networking Hardware

traskjd writes "Microsoft are looking to increase their strength in the hardware market with wireless and conventional networking hardware according to this story on cnet. Microsoft has always been slow at moving into the hardware market... could they be testing the waters for making things like switches and routers in the future? Lets hope not..." There's also a Reuters article. There was a story last year that mentioned Microsoft was working on Win-WiFi - 802.11b hardware that exported some of the processing to the CPU in much the same manner as a winmodem, and thus was cheaper to produce. These stories don't mention anything about that, so probably these are conventional 802.11b devices.

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Wow

[Phil the Canuck]

Microsoft...entering...wireless...market...
too...many...security...jokes...
head...exploding...

I heard this on NPR

[teamhasnoi]

When you buy a MS Wireless Router, it comes packed in powdered chalk.

More NEW MS Innovations

[BurritoWarrior]

New bookmarks:
http://nouters.windowsupdate.com
http ://security.microsoft.com/routers

New Licensing:
Your router subscription has expired. Would you like to pay another $79 dollars for the next 12 months?

New Animation:
Paperclip: Hi! I see your trying to access the internet. Can I help you?

New Monitoring:
We have deteted a P2P application running on your network. Your router has been disabled. Please call 1-800-RIAA-Pal to correct this.

New Dialog boxes:
You are using an inferior browser. Are you SURE you want to do this? [Yes] [No]

Re:MS Hardware?

[inkfox]

What is up with all the negative articles on MS Hardware? Take a look at your mouse! Have you ever used an MS Joystick? Sure, lots of you have complaints with MS's OS's. Some of you hate the whole "Major Corportation" thing. But, damnit, MS MAKES GOOD HARDWARE!

I've said many a time that I look forward to the day when Microsoft is fondly remembered as "that rather nice mouse manufacturer."