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Apple releases Bonjour for Windows

Thursday, May 5, 2005 · 6:38 pm · 29 Comments

Apple has released Bonjour for Windows. Bonjour is Apple’s new name for Rendezvous (see related articles below). With Bonjour for Windows, you can easily network your Windows 2000/2003/XP computer to an existing network or create instant networks of multiple devices without any additional network configuration.

System Requirements:
Windows 2000/2003/XP
Latest Windows Service Pack Recommmended
300MHz Pentium class PC or higher
128MB of RAM or higher recommended
Network connectivity

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BriAnimations

Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 7:56 pm · Reply

…why?
What

Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 8:00 pm · Reply

What The F*ck!!!! Ok, if your trying to get people to stop using windows cause its hard to use and set up why would you release software to make it work better?!?!?!?!?!?
notatotalsucker

Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 8:02 pm · Reply

Duh, maybe they need it for themselves??? Wireless iPods? Other devices requiring 0 config networking.
Strategy

Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 8:11 pm · Reply

Bonjour is used by iTunes to find Airport Express and other computers (Macs or PCs).

I think there’s something coming soon on the living room front, like the Tuesday right after the Airport Express free iTunes song promo ends on Monday May 23rd.
bad news bear

Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 8:22 pm · Reply

Maybe the OSX86 rumors are true!!!!!
DANK

Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 8:23 pm · Reply

That would be hella tight.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Longhorn

Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 8:25 pm · Reply

Apple should have bought the Virtual PC software…
M$ is going to become a developer for Mac and XBOX…
express

Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 8:29 pm · Reply

idea is probably why, but one nice side effect is that windows users will see how well and how easily Apple software works. Most of my windows friends love iTunes (even those w/o iPods).
MacMania

Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 8:36 pm · Reply

Strategy, I think you hit the nail on the head (I had the same opinion when I first heard of the iTunes promo).

Maybe you and I just do damd cynical.

Interesting that Steve’s crew spent precious development time on this vs. other stuff like QT 7.0 for winblows. Yea, I know it’s coming but it’s probably no accident that they delayed it and are launching Bonjour right away.

If you follow war strategies and tactics like Sun Tzu, Art of War (http://www.literatureproject.com/art-of-war/), this is great strategy.

Stick it to ‘em Steve!
simple1

Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 9:04 pm · Reply

I predict, for WWDC apple is going to annonce it’s partnership with toshiba, sony & intel for the cell processors! quote me on this, i said it 1st on MDN when this was going to happen!
allgood2

Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 9:09 pm · Reply

Funny, my first reaction was..”God, I hate the name Bonjour! Too bad about they can’t use the name Rendezvous” Outside of that, since Zero config technology is open and available for use on any OS, it makes sense that if Apple were going to introduce something that required it that they build it to suit their need. Just like they did for iTunes. So personally I’m betting on the “living room” rumors as well.
DudeMac

Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 9:14 pm · Reply

Where’s the Linux version???
jj

Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 9:50 pm · Reply

imagine all those win users that took the bait and got a mini and a kvm.
well now they can install bonjour on their win and easily network both machines…
soon their win box will just become a file server to their mini.
macnut222

Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 10:01 pm · Reply

I don’t know, DudeMac, but the source code is and has been available, so anyone can use it.
jj

Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 10:02 pm · Reply

installed it on my XP and now I see why Apple did it.
Airport Express USB printers are now easily made available to win users.
that’s what it does, nothing else…
AP

Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 10:06 pm · Reply

Gang –

Relax! It seems obvious to me why Apple did this: so that manufacturers of printers & other peripherals would have every reason to add Rendezvous (er, uh Bonjour) features to their products. This technology won’t work (even in a Mac-only environment) unless A WHOLE LOT of peripherals have this feature. So, making it available for Windows for FREE will give manufacturers every reason to add it in.

It’s really the same reason they made QuickTime available for Windows – because they really wanted to be able to claim that several squillion people had downloaded it, and so developers could confidently develop applications that use the standard.

And really, does anyone believe that adding Bonjour to Windows makes a big improvement? It doesn’t matter how much sugar you sprinkle on dogcrap, it still won’t make it taste any better.

-Adam
DrDude

Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 10:34 pm · Reply

AP, in some corners of the earth, dogcrap is a delicacy (perhaps Redmond).

MW = dogcrap (just kidding)
Len

Friday, May 6, 2005 - 12:01 am · Reply

>>Funny, my first reaction was..”God, I hate the name Bonjour! Too bad about they can’t use the name Rendezvous” Outside of that, since Zero config technology is open and available for use on any OS, it makes sense that if Apple were going to introduce something that required it that they build it to suit their need. Just like they did for iTunes. So personally I’m betting on the “living room” rumors as well.<<

allgood2, what’s wrong with bonjour (French: “good day”), it’s a great for a hobbled version of Rendezvous if you ask me — it’s like the begining of a rendezvous. I’m with ya and everyone else on the living room stuff
Bill

Friday, May 6, 2005 - 12:06 am · Reply

Yes, this is the beginning of the spood feeding! Give the dozers one bite at a time and let them digest it. This is the most devious of moves…a solid grab for the future of PC digital media. QuickTime, iTunes, and now BonJour! Video, audio and zero config networking for all those kick ass digital gadgets.
twdldee

Friday, May 6, 2005 - 1:25 am · Reply

They should port AppleWorks to Windows to show the Windows community how great even outdated Apple stuff is.