Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates took the stage at WinHEC on Thursday,
announcing support for Bluetooth wireless networking technology and
demonstrating technologies that he sees becoming pervasive in home "personal
networks." As earlier
reported, Microsoft later this year plans to sell keyboards and mice that
use Bluetooth technology to connect to PCs, Gates told the audience at
Microsoft's Windows Hardware
Engineering Conference. The company will push Bluetooth software as well,
releasing a development kit in May to help programmers support the technology
and posting a download that will give Windows XP (news
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web sites) built-in Bluetooth abilities this fall. Microsoft also will sell
a Bluetooth transceiver--the radio antenna that communicates with Bluetooth
devices--that plugs into a PC's USB port.
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