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Microsoft To Make Wireless Networking Hardware

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Re:Will? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I like sitting in your lap too!

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  3. Re:Will? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I knew it! My keyboard does troll Slashdot while I'm at work!

  4. Re:I don't know about you guys.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Considering that there aren't any patches available for my mouse (yet?) I'd say they're using somebody else's hardware.
    </troll>

  5. Re:MS Hardware? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  6. Re:MS Hardware? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Gimmie your username, and address, and I'll let you do the honors.

  7. Re:For the love of all that is good and holy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    have you considered how many bowls of grits it took to write that?

    or for that matter, the size of a moose nut?