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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. Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    p0wn3d by two k1dd13z at the same time!

    1. Re:Awesome! by Zardus · · Score: 2, Funny

      Double penetration takes a whole new meaning....

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      You can mod your friends, you can mod your nose, but you can't mod your friend's nose.
  2. The right hand and the left hand... by AthenianGadfly · · Score: 3, Funny

    In related news, another Microsoft department is releasing a new DRM scheme that will prevent "unauthorized duplication of your wireless card, virtual or otherwise."

  3. WTF by 0x4B494C4C · · Score: 3, Funny

    Innovation. From the beast..... I need to sit down :-)

  4. Oh! Sources! by dud83 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft released something with sources...
    Quick! Someone brutally abuse their trust by ripping off the design and idea. Release a fully (and better) working Linux VirtualWiFi driver by tomorrow!

    Hack evil minions! Hack hack hack!!!

  5. Re:Network Bridge? by drewxhawaii · · Score: 1, Funny

    i would assume so, and THAT would be awesome.

  6. Re:What the crap? by mattjb0010 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This just doesn't look like typical Microsof

    A primitive release with security to be added later? Sure sounds like Microsoft to me.

  7. Thanks by thedarkone64 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks, Microsoft (geez I still feel wierd saying that....)

    Why should you feel weird saying that? I say it all the time. Oh wait, I normally say it sarcastically.

  8. Re:What the crap? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please... tell me there's a catch. I'm not ready for the apocalypse yet.

  9. Re:Original Page... by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

    Stop asking silly questions and just boot up already.

    KFG

  10. Re:Linux equivalent by pixr99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yep, at the tender age of five, Linus Torvalds conceived a method by which to clone network interfaces in the, as of yet, nonexistent Linux kernel.

  11. Awesome by Fortress · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I connect them to each other, not only can I send files, email, pictures, etc to my computer from my computer, but with this technology I can do it wirelessly.

  12. Bonding? by Fortress · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm really only interested if I can bond the two connections together and stea^H^H^H^H borrow twice as much bandwidth.

  13. Re:What the crap? by Derek+Pomery · · Score: 1, Funny


    This is just the prototype. The real thing will be a DRM'd, patented, closed source win-modem like thing that will encourage Windows only HW.
    </conspiracy>

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