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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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.