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Apple Places Bonjour Moniker on Rendezvous for Windows

Apple Places Bonjour Moniker on Rendezvous for Windows

by , 12:15 PM EDT, May 6th, 2005

Apple has quietly changed the name of its Rendezvous networking protocol for Windows users, giving it the same Bonjour moniker as the Mac version. Known as Rendezvous before it was changed last month as the result of a trademark dispute, Bonjour is a zero-configuration protocol that enables a computer to automatically find devices, other computers and services on a network without requiring an IP address or a DNS server configuration. It was first made available to Windows users last June.

Apple's Web site notes that Bonjour for Windows includes an Internet Explorer plug-in for finding advertised HTTP servers, such as local area network (LAN) devices with embedded HTTP servers. Also included is a Printer Wizard that finds and prints to networked printers that use Bonjour; Apple notes that "every major maker of network printers has adopted Bonjour" since its introduction in 2002.

Bonjour for Windows is a free download from Apple's Web site. Windows 2000/2003 or XP, a 300MHz processor and 128MB RAM are required. Apple also recommends the installation of the latest Windows Service Pack. In addition, the company offers a software development kit (SDK) for developers who would like to incorporate Bonjour in their applications.

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View Name:RealityCheck - Troll Posts: 392 Joined: 06 May 2004
Fri May 06, 2005 12:51 pm Subject: Hell Froze Over Again - More Apple PC Software

Close Name:iggyb Posts: 112 Joined: 09 May 2003
Fri May 06, 2005 12:51 pm Subject: That's the best they can do?

Rendezvous was a cool name. Too bad that didn't work out. But.....Bonjour?

Bonjour????

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Close Name:Biff Posts: 1479 Joined: 08 Apr 2004
Fri May 06, 2005 1:21 pm Subject:

RC please provide an example of Apple releasing a product for Windows that is not done as part of a format war? Apple wants Rendez... er.. Bonjour to become a standard just as they want AAC/Fairplay to become the defacto norm.

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Close Name:Guest
Fri May 06, 2005 1:54 pm Subject: Microsoft Will Migrate to Mac Platform

Clearly, with Microsoft releasing Office, Media Player, MSN Messenger, Entourage and other titles for OS X on the Power PC, one can conclude that they will soon abandon the slow, dated Intel architecture, and copy Apple yet again by moving to OS X and Power PC.

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Close Name:jhonka Posts: 77 Joined: 05 Sep 2003
Fri May 06, 2005 4:27 pm Subject:

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RealityCheck wrote:
iTunes and iPods for PCs were just the beginning. Apple is making PCs even easier to use with Bonjour. Apple knows that technology convergence means a common PC hardware platform is inevitable.

Yeah, it's too bad for your argument that Apple made Rendezvous (Bonjour) available for Windows over two years ago.

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Close Name:jecrawford Posts: 20 Joined: 13 Oct 2004
Sat May 07, 2005 2:36 am Subject: Bonjour name

"Hallo, hallo?"

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Close Name:Carlos Net Posts: 2 Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Sat May 07, 2005 4:37 am Subject:

I'm just going to say the same thing I say in every Rendezvous-shouldn't-have-become-Bonjour-because-that-name-sucks argument.

'Liaison'.

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