Apple Releases Bonjour for Windows 1.0.3

MacDailyNews is reporting that Apple has released Bonjour for Windows 1.0.3. From the article: "Bonjour, also known as zero-configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks. Bonjour uses industry standard IP protocols to allow devices to automatically discover each other without the need to enter IP addresses or configure DNS servers."

Gosh

[amazon10x]

I didn't know anyone still used Windows 1.0

Hello

[mysqlrocks]

Let me be the first to say, "Hello" to our new, uh, wait, never-mind... (ducks)

wow

[larry bagina]

from TFA:

Installing Bonjour: Double-click the Bonjour installer and follow the onscreen instructions.

Thanks, I never would have thought of that.

Don't need it

[n6kuy]

I've already said Bonjour to Windows...

Re:How is this different than...

[Lussarn]

How is this any different than the Wireless Zero configuration that comes with Windows XP

• This will install quicktime for you.
• This will install iTunes for you.
• This will start up 5 needless background processes.
• This will nag you all the time to buy the full version
• This will look like an Mac app.
• This will try to sell you stuff from Apple.
• This will take up all your ram
• This will contain some light form of spyware.

To sum it up, there are some small differences.

Re:Don't need it

[FluffyWithTeeth]

I really hope I'm wrong, but please tell me you didn't just translate "bonjour" like I think you did.

Please.

Re:How is this different than...

[Ohreally_factor]

I fear you're going to get marked down as flamebait, but that was pretty funny, not to mention apt.

Missing from the list:

This will cause you to grow a goatee.

This will cause an incredible thirst for lattes and koolaid.

Re:Bonjour vs UPnP

[HardCase]

How does Bonjour compare to Univeral Plug-n-Play (besides probably being more secure, given UPnP's reputation)?

It's much more hip and cool. And it smokes French cigarettes.

Re:Don't need it

[n6kuy]

...or maybe I meant Bon Voyage.

I'm not French, dammit!

Re:Windows 1.0.3?

[Anonymous Coward]

Gratified as I am that my little rant above got modded up to +3 Informative, I don't really think it represents the best of the Mac community. The truth is, we Mac users feel deep pity for those to whom Rendezvous/Bonjour (ZeroConf by any other name) seems like some kind of magical future technology. No one deserves to be trapped in the configuration hell that is Windows or Linux. Even worse is that you people have come to expect such utter user-unfriendliness, and so you sneer at those whose work would improve your lives. You are the most pathetic of them all, and we Mac users shed a collective tear in sympathy for you.

Therefore, please mod my above comment down to troll where it belongs.

Re:I bet network engineers

[RJabelman]

And frankly, the windows equivalent is pretty easy. Just type "\\servername\printername" and the print queue is opened & the drivers are installed for you from the print server if you don't have them. You can quietly put it in the login script with "rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /c\\servername /n\\servername\printername /q". You can also set the default printer with the /y switch.

Yes, that's much easier than choosing the printer you want from a list of those available to you.

Re:How is this different than...

[JamesTRexx]

So the difference with Windows is that it only installs a light form of spyware?

Re:Bonjour vs UPnP

[HardCase]

And it works.

But only 30 hours per week.

I keed, I keed...

Re:What?

[Ohreally_factor]

You're going to doubt the word of someone who has been a Java programmer for over 20 years*? =)

*In an alternate universe

Re:Apple got me with Bonjour (among other things)

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's another acronym for ya - MUASAALC. It stands for Mac Users are Smug and Annoying Little Cocksuckers.

Here's another for you: TBWAHTFYBWTITPDATTWMFGATDTPVAOTITPPBFHI. It stands for "That's Because We Always Have Technologies Five Years Before Windows That IT People Decry As Toys Then When Microsoft Finally Gets Around To Delivering Their Plagiarized Versions All Of The IT People Praise Bill For His Innovation."

I've been using it a lot ever since IT people started acting like overlords and taking away user choice in operating systems and platforms and forcing everyone onto crappy, insecure operating systems made of baling wire and horsehair.