Android 4 connectivity WiFi Direct or Bluetooth from Windows XP?

Hi,

You may post the query in the forum for further assistance

http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/

What are you talking about? Oh, I figured it out. Microsoft must pay you by the post, not the clarity. Not like you have to listen to or communicate with the actual users, eh? We just have use Microsoft because it was there on the computer when we bought it, or because our employers force us to use Microsoft, or both... It's really hard for me to remember the last time I liked using a Microsoft product or voluntarily agreed to buy one. Maybe it was Windows 95?

Okay, let me state that I am NOT using Outlook within Office. I did find it on a couple of computers I owned at various points, and I tried it, and I HATED it so much. It also destroyed a bunch of my personal data, but I suspect that was part of Microsoft's war on the PDAs, so it was probably just collateral damage.

I was referring to the new outlook.com email system that is supposed to be your future vision of Web-based email. I do not use Hotmail, but I decided to try outlook.com in hopes it might be improved. That was mostly because Microsoft has actually done some good upstream against the spammers, so I hoped they had decided it was time to do some good downstream. I was quite disappointed. I have been checking that mailbox about twice a month, but in the future I expect not so much.

Oh yeah, on the original topic, I went through a couple more rounds with Bluetooth and I've pretty much given up on it. WiFi Direct still seems interesting, but useless so far.

I'm not holding my breath waiting for evidence of sincerity in the Android support from Microsoft. Actually, I suppose you are probably still hungover from the celebration of Apple's legal victory over Samsung.

Hi,

You may look at the information provided in the download linked below to find a way to share the Internet connection from the PC to the tablet.

Ad Hoc Internet Sharing with Microsoft Windows XP

​Hi,

You may refer the links and check for the bluetooth proxy driver.

How to troubleshoot Bluetooth detection and connectivity problems in Windows XP Service Pack 2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883258

How to install and configure Bluetooth devices in Windows XP Service Pack 2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883259

Not allowed here, but in other places where I've attempted to make the ad hot networking work, it hasn't been useful. The implementation of similar functionality within Windows 7 does work quite well, however. Unfortunately, that would also be disallowed at this location.

Bluetooth appears to be an option, and it is possible that WiFi Direct would make the Windows XP approach more feasible. However, my current interpretation of the data I've been able to collect is that Toshiba would need to provide a kind of driver describing the Bluetooth capability for the tablet side, and I suspect there would also be a need for some kind of Bluetooth proxy driver on the Windows XP side.

(By the way and no insult intended, but do you think I actually expect Microsoft to make any sincere effort to support any non-Microsoft product? That actually hurts you. Most recently it got me to skip Windows Vista completely, before that it got me to skip several other versions of Windows, and my current plan is to skip Windows 8, too. If Ubuntu hadn't imploded, I was hoping to abandon Microsoft almost entirely, at least at home... You did manage to force me to accept bundled Microsoft Office on some computers where I didn't want it, but I almost never use it at home, which even overflows into my work when coworkers need help with their emergencies...)