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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. Re:Bonjour? by torpor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the fact you can't see it and don't know much about it means that its doing its job.

    zeroconf (the IEEE name for bonjour, which is just an implementation of the standard, Apple-extended...) means zero configuration. the user doesn't need to know how to connect to a device, she just uses it.

    this is one of those technology's which, if used properly, won't get much notice. its not supposed to.

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  2. Nice MacOS X advert... by troon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From TFA:

    Now anyone using a Windows PC can take advantage of the effortlessness of Bonjour for free. The Bonjour Setup Wizard makes setting up a printer under Windows as easy as Mac OS X (we can't make it as beautiful, unfortunately).

    Cool.

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