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Apple's Bonjour Available for Windows

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the redmond-rendezvous dept.

inblosam writes "Apple's Bonjour ('also known as zero-configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks') is now available for Windows! A Bonjour icon shows up in Internet Explorer to enable Bonjour browsing, along with the Bonjour Printer Wizard. Developers can download the Bonjour SDK. The benefits would appear to be for Apple customers (more Bonjouring with more networks) and to gain Apple switchers by enticing Windows customers."

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  1. Bonjour? No point by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The americans will rename this to Freedom Discoverer anyway.

    1. Re:Bonjour? No point by Alex · · Score: 5, Funny

      The americans will rename this to Freedom Discoverer anyway.

      And GWB will call it Discovererer

      Alex

    2. Re:Bonjour? No point by rca66 · · Score: 4, Funny
      And GWB will call it Discovererer

      No, no, he will of course call it "Bonjour" - and he will point out the interesting fact, that the french have no word for "Bonjour".

    3. Re:Bonjour? No point by nametaken · · Score: 5, Funny


      The americans will rename this to Freedom Discoverer anyway.

      And GWB will call it Discovererer

      And Al Gore will claim to have invented it.

      And Kerry will claim to have supported its creation, then retract.

      And FoxNews will tell the world that Bonjour is an attack on our freedom created by the Democrats.

      And CNN will claim that Clinton wrote it while he was getting head. ...can we stop the lame political jokes now and just call it a day?

  2. Uh oh... by dysprosia · · Score: 4, Funny

    What happens in the evenings?!

    1. Re:Uh oh... by Motherfucking+Shit · · Score: 5, Funny
      What happens in the evenings?!
      No worries, launchd has it all figured out. At 6pm localtime, bonjourd is automatically kill -9'd by bonsoird.
      --
      "BSD: Free as in speech. Linux: Free as in beer. Windows 10: Free as in herpes." --Man On Pink Corner in #52607549.
  3. Okay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And what about Linux?

    Or is it just assumed "Zero configuration" and "linux" are inherently incompatible concepts

  4. Re:UPnP by jcr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure: Bonjour works. Any more questions?

    --
    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  5. Switch by De+Lemming · · Score: 3, Funny

    Au revoir?

  6. Bye, bye! by BigYawn · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bonjour has invoked an illegal operation and will be shutdown. Windows needs to be rebooted.
    Au revoir!

  7. Re:Bonjour? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's spelled "Rendezvous".

    No. It used to be spelled "Rendezvous". Now it's spelled "Bonjour".

  8. Problems with Bonjour: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've run into a few bugs with Bonjour:

    I keep getting IM coupons for French Roast Coffee.

    When I play German music on iTunes, all the Bonjour connections surrender and vanish.

    QuickTime unexpectedly opens a connection and begins playing Jerry Lewis films.

    iTunes insists that I listen to European Jazz Internet Radio at least once a day.

    And Bonjour works best only in trendy art café hot-spots while the end user smokes clove cigarettes.

    I'm sure Apple will correct these issues when they update OS X 'Tiger'
    to
    OS X 'La petite femme'.

  9. Re:Is this a first? by As+Seen+On+MTV · · Score: 5, Funny
    We will never allow OS X to run on commodity hardware. I know because over lunch yesterday in Cupertino, SJ and I had a long chat about this very issue.

    After the meal, over a delightful little bottle of 1992 Pinot Grigiot, he leaned over and said to me in a conspiratorial tone, "Hermann, for that is your true name, why do you insist on stalking me, you pompous delusional fuckwit? We're not having lunch; rather you have just prostrated yourself on the ground in front of me in an attempt to slather on my boots. As an intern in accounts receivable, you have no more right to use the royal "we" than a cockroach. Begone filth".

    Jobs has a way of being tangential, elusive, not saying what he really means. I recall, back when we founded Apple in my garage in 1976, etc etc ...

  10. Re:Um.. okay by Golias · · Score: 4, Funny

    but I'd consider it for a "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?".

    Isn't it a little early in the morning to be breaking out the Patty LaVelle?

    Now I'm going to have the goddamn "Hey sistah, soul sistah..." riff stuck in my head until at least lunchtime.

    --

    Information wants to be anthropomorphized.

  11. Re:Bonjour? by tbone1 · · Score: 4, Funny
    No. It used to be spelled "Rendezvous". Now it's spelled "Bonjour".

    But it's pronounced "Throatwarbler Mangrove".

    --

    The Independent: Reverend Spooner Arrested in Friar Tuck Incident - ISIHAC, Historical Headlines
  12. Re:Um.. okay by shotfeel · · Score: 4, Funny

    It has nothing to do with them being French -- consider the trademark on "Windows", for instance.

    Word!