Microsoft to quit making WiFi gear

After a good run of just over a year and a half, Microsoft is ditching out of the wireless home networking game, and killing their line of WiFi access points, cards, and USB adapters. Which is a shame, since despite the evil empire stuff, they actually made some good products. We picked up an 802.11g USB adapter from Linksys for one of our Media Center PCs a few weeks back and had to return it because it was so awful. We replaced it with a similar model from Microsoft, which has worked like a charm. Anyway, we're not exactly sure why Microsoft is doing this, since sales had been pretty solid, except that WiFi gear is becoming a commodity, and it's hard to make money in a commodity business.

[Via Wi-Fi Networking News]