Microsoft To Make Wireless Networking Hardware

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday September 19, 2002 @02:12AM from the well,-their-mice-are-pretty-good dept.

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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I don't know about you guys.. by ChronoZ · 2002-09-19 02:18 · Score: 5, Insightful

but usually Microsoft hardware isn't bad at all. I like their USB mice quite a bit, and their natural ergonomic keyboard is pretty cool. So as far as their hardware record, they've had a good reputation (IMHO).

I'd predict that their wireless networking hardware may turn up to be a good quality product.