One of the most satisfying tech moments of my so-called life was getting my new iMac onto my LAN two winters ago. I dreaded hooking it up, ’cause I expected hours of fuss-time, looking up DNS numbers, subnet masks, and the like. Instead, I plugged in my Ethernet cable and THE COMPUTER did all of this discovery and form-filling on its own. Contrast this with my son getting an MSN Messenger watch for Christmas that year and us spending hours trying to figure out how to get a message from my WinPC to his watch.
Anyway, a little true plug n’ play intelligence comes to the Windows world, thanks to Apple’s release of Bonjour for Windows, their oh-so-welcomed networking framework.