Microsoft networking software gets support
C|Net | at | by Mike
Intel, Linksys and other network equipment makers announced Tuesday that they are supporting Microsoft-backed software that connects consumer-electronic devices together.
Microsoft's Universal Plug and Play (UpnP) software uses Internet protocols to allow devices such as computers, scanners and printers to automatically discover each other so they can communicate. Sun Microsystems builds rival software called Jini that is based on the Java programming language.