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Microsoft Virtually Duplicates Your Wireless Card

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the engineers-having-fun dept.

akhomerun writes "Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its experimental new VirtualWiFi Software. The free software enables Windows users to use a single wireless card to connect to multiple wireless networks simultaneously. The current build is a very primitive release, with no support for WEP or WPA encryption."

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  1. is it NDIS ? by DrSkwid · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    that would be hilarious, thanks Micro$haft for Virtual WiFi for Linux !!

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    1. Re:is it NDIS ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Thanks for this predicatle fanboy comment.
      Heaven forbid microsoft were to *gasp* use some linux technologies.
      The sneering and outcry from slashdot would render me deaf!

  2. Cool. Microsoft innovation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    MS doing what Linux and Apple have done for ages. Thanks for verifying their complete lack of innovation, great to see.

  3. Version 1.0? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You'd think something as important as WEP would go into a 1.0 release. Maybe they should have just stuck it into "perpetual beta."

  4. Linux equivalent by dascandy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ifconfig eth0
    ifconfig eth0:0

    well, that is probably been like that for around... well... 30 years?

    Microsoft is "Innovating" again.

  5. No WEP or WPA? by Fahrvergnuugen · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As always with Microsoft, security is an afterthought.

    I'd say it's par for the course...

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  6. Re:What the crap? by Darth+Daver · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "what more could I ask for?"

        Encryption. The fact that Micro "We Get Security now. Really." soft released a wireless driver that lacks this fundamental security feature is ripe for derisive jokes. Honestly, why even release the driver before you can provide this basic ability? It is a problem waiting to happen.