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'Towards Self-Managing, Dependable Home Networking' as Microsoft puts it. One does not know how dependable he would become on it. Read this leaked document from Microsoft Research. It's the next big thing that MS is planning, after the Tablet PC. It is a toolkit for creating a home network consisting of wireless devices talking to each other using, as you might have guessed, proprietory protocols. Well, if you liked reading that, try this - Converting Hotmail BSD Servers to Windows. Notice how they try to ape each and every feature that a Unix server provides, ending up with a heavily patched Windows server.