>Microsoft's hardware isn't necessarily the culprit here, merely the victim. The NFL uses a lot of wireless hardware—communications headsets, public Wi-Fi networks, private networks for the tablets, networks for the press, and more. Moreover, key portions of the infrastructure, including the tablets themselves, are owned by the NFL itself. Belichick said that although the Patriots' IT person, Dan Famosi, did a "great job" of handling all the systems, he had no power to diagnose or fix problems with the league-provided equipment.
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Whats more egregious is the short time span given to fix things. Either the NFL needs to open that up, or have a whole ops team who does it for the teams and has a SLA related to making it work.
If I'm dealing with the pressure to perform that goes with running a NFL team, networking and communications infrastructure is about the last thing I'd want to worry about. Belichick is being quite restrained if he's only throwing the tablets. I'd probably crack it over my knee!