Microsoft adds WiFi tools suite to Windows Live

by on August 26, 2006

I was over reading Dare Obasanjo’s blog and saw he linked over to the new Windows Live WiFi team. That team is working on tools that sound very useful. I’m signing up for the beta.

In other Windows Live news Don Dodge links to the new image and video search. That’ll be interesting to try out.

Sounds like Windows Live is quickly coming out with lots of stuff to compete with Google. More on Google next.

  • Jack
    Who cares? They are followers - does it make any sense to watch them?
  • Jack: yes it does. Why? Cause they have hundreds of millions of users and a huge share of the OS market. And a LOT of cash to hire workers, and do intersting things.

    Does Google have a WiFi pack of tools?
  • Garth
    So does this https://wifi.google.com/support not count Robert ???.
  • Garth: that's a wifi network in one town, not a toolset. Thanks for playing!
  • Jack
    A lot of cash to hire people? It looks to me that anybody can work for Microsoft these days. 10.000 hired people in last year? How many of them are just average coding monkeys and how many are real gurus (Sysinternals guys, for example). A quantity is a different word than quality - look, I remember guys like Box, Kruglinski (RIP) or Blaszczak , etc. Those names were a sign of ultimate knowledge to me. But if you hire 10.000 people in a year what you get? It's ridiculous.
  • Jack: we'll know that based on their output, won't we?

    Remember, though, that there are a LOT of smart people who never work on a public persona. Even at Google. Do you know the names of the 8,000 people who work there? I can name maybe 20.

    Truth is that for every superstar they need a team behind them that does much of the grunt work. And Microsoft has more than its fair share of superstars.
  • Jack
    Output? You mean the most unstable beta version of Windows OS ever?
  • On a first look, it looks almost like any other WiFi directory service such as JiWire or WiFi411, but features such as the built-in VPN are very nice (where will the endpoint be though, and will it be free to connect to it?). Additionally, it would rock if it had an API to toy with - I have signed up for the test, will report back on the blog.

    It is amazing the number of people that connect to commercial hotspots, and actually believe their session is encrypted, just because during the signup/login stage, the payment/authentication website is encrypted.
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