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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Crunchy(Cracked)Butter on 16 October 2002, 01:34

Title: Same old Same old: Bluetooth support in XP
Post by: Crunchy(Cracked)Butter on 16 October 2002, 01:34
"If they supported the Bluetooth sync protocol, that would be vendor independent," Helm said. "Why would they do that? They would rather lock people into their own sync protocols with ActiveSync."

Microsoft did not respond to requests for additional information on its Bluetooth strategy. A company representative said PAN support would be coming out a later time."

Seems to me MS don't care, and neither do i actually since i cannot get a decent bluetooth card for my laptop so i don't bother with it.  Thought this might interest others thou.

Link:  http://news.com.com/2100-1040-962116.html?tag=fd_top_1 (http://news.com.com/2100-1040-962116.html?tag=fd_top_1)
Title: Same old Same old: Bluetooth support in XP
Post by: hm_murdock on 16 October 2002, 06:58
What? They have Bluetooth support?

Oh, yeah... of course they do. Apple had free drivers available the day that D-Link came out with their USB Bluetooth adapter.

10.2 has native support for standard Bluetooth, not bastardized MS Bluetooth.

And so MS ripped off the idea.

[ October 16, 2002: Message edited by: The Jimmy James / Bob ]

Title: Same old Same old: Bluetooth support in XP
Post by: Calum on 16 October 2002, 20:49
i will not be particularly bothered about getting bluetooth stuff, since i disagree with the principle of wireless networking and of unauthorised data/funds transfer.

In 20 years when Microsoft is but a distant memory, expect to see me posting on the fuckbluetooth.com forums...
Title: Same old Same old: Bluetooth support in XP
Post by: trc3 on 17 October 2002, 11:03
quote:
Originally posted by Calum:
i will not be particularly bothered about getting bluetooth stuff, since i disagree with the principle of wireless networking and of unauthorised data/funds transfer.


Whats wrong with wireless networking?
Title: Same old Same old: Bluetooth support in XP
Post by: Calum on 17 October 2002, 16:34
you can't be assured of a physically closed network.

just another dimension of exploitation left wide open since many peopl will buy some wireless networking just because they can...
Title: Same old Same old: Bluetooth support in XP
Post by: Kintaro on 17 October 2002, 16:46
Who needs security, if we where all bob then we would be able to trust each other as there would be no evil... So why not join?

www.bobs.tk (http://www.bobs.tk)
Title: Same old Same old: Bluetooth support in XP
Post by: Refalm on 17 October 2002, 19:29
Or use this mirror site:

http://www.cultbob.tk (http://www.cultbob.tk) (http://www.tweakers.net/g/s/devil.gif)
Title: Same old Same old: Bluetooth support in XP
Post by: Calum on 17 October 2002, 19:41
ehm...  
quote:
Problem Report
 There was a communication problem.
 
Message ID
 TCP_ERROR
 
Problem Description
 The system was unable to communicate with the server.
 
Possible Problem Cause
 
The Web server may be down.
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The Web server may be experiencing other problems, preventing it from responding to clients.
The communication path may be experiencing problems.

 
Possible Solution
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that didn't look the same as X11's one...