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Microsoft Questions FCC's 'White Spaces' Decision
narramissic writes "Late last month a wireless prototype submitted by Microsoft and other members of the White Spaces Coalition was rejected by the FCC because it interfered with cable channels. Microsoft, though, claims that the device was malfunctioning when the FCC tested it. From the article: 'In a letter to the FCC Monday, Microsoft said the scanner in one of two prototypes was damaged and "operated at a severely degraded level. The damaged scanner accounted for the entire discrepancy between the Microsoft and the FCC bench test data," said Ed Thomas, a consultant for the White Spaces Coalition and a former chief of the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology.'"
Actually this will only be version 2. Everyone knows that with MS it's best to wait for version 3.0 of any product.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Microsoft questions FCC's 'white spaces' decision
While it's true that other companies are involved in the White Spaces project, only Microsoft is using their public relations machine to try for a "do-over" on their test failure.
Anyway, nice try - but your troll-fu is too weak.