Microsoft shuts Windows on Bluetooth support
Just before the clock strikes 12, I thought I'll slip in another news byte. Over at EE Times, it is reported that Microsoft will not be supporting Bluetooth in Windows XP, or even the HomeRF standard. Instead the company is betting on 802.11. Check this:
<< ANAHEIM, Calif. ? Microsoft Corp. will not support Bluetooth in the next major version of Windows, executives said this week, portraying the technology as not ready for prime time. Nor will Windows XP, a version of the operating system aimed broadly at consumer and business users, adopt the emerging HomeRF wireless local-area network standard. XP instead will use 802.11, which company managers see as taking off rapidly.
"I don't think the maturity of Bluetooth technology is good enough to ship the bits when Windows XP is released," said Carl Stork, general manager of Microsoft's Windows division, speaking in an interview at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) here. "We wouldn't want to ship something that doesn't work, and Bluetooth doesn't yet meet a certain quality level." >>
(I pulled this from www.hardware-one.com)
Just before the clock strikes 12, I thought I'll slip in another news byte. Over at EE Times, it is reported that Microsoft will not be supporting Bluetooth in Windows XP, or even the HomeRF standard. Instead the company is betting on 802.11. Check this:
<< ANAHEIM, Calif. ? Microsoft Corp. will not support Bluetooth in the next major version of Windows, executives said this week, portraying the technology as not ready for prime time. Nor will Windows XP, a version of the operating system aimed broadly at consumer and business users, adopt the emerging HomeRF wireless local-area network standard. XP instead will use 802.11, which company managers see as taking off rapidly.
"I don't think the maturity of Bluetooth technology is good enough to ship the bits when Windows XP is released," said Carl Stork, general manager of Microsoft's Windows division, speaking in an interview at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) here. "We wouldn't want to ship something that doesn't work, and Bluetooth doesn't yet meet a certain quality level." >>
(I pulled this from www.hardware-one.com)
