USB flash drives and the Internet with Windows Vista
Make sharing a net connection easy
Sunday, January 7, 2007 by Frogboy | Discussion: CES 2007
Fun with USB flash drives
One of the neat demos Microsoft gave was how easy it is in Windows Vista to share a network connection. If you have a net connection, you can plug in a USB key and you can turn it into a quasi-wireless share device. Then hand it over to other people and once they plug in that USB key, the auto-run on it will set up the network connection automatically.
You could imagine how easy that would make getting a LAN game going or something. You could share connections under XP, but it was a lot more tedious. This, by contrast, was incredibly easy.
Reply #2 Sunday, January 7, 2007 5:43 PM
I have always had trouble with this on XP. This sounds like a great feature, and I hope it works as well as it sounds.
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Reply #1 Sunday, January 7, 2007 3:59 PM