Just a quickie here.
I was playing around with my wireless settings yesterday (see my previous post) and discovered an interesting difference between Windows 7 and OS X 10.6. A difference that increased the respect I have for some of the security changes Microsoft is making. As a side note, I had the same result with my iPad and iPhone that I had with OS X but I'll stick with just laptops for now.
So I changed from WPA2+AES to WPA+TKIP to test my ISPs theory that my router couldn't handle the encryption load. Both Windows 7 laptops in the house refused to connect, stating that the settings had changed and I was required to remove the wireless network and add it again. OS X, however, was happy to simply reconnect to a network with changed security settings without giving it a second thought.
So kudos to Microsoft for the little bit of forethought that went into that implementation.
