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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Refalm on 21 June 2005, 17:14

Title: P2P program by Microsoft
Post by: Refalm on 21 June 2005, 17:14

Quote from: The Register

Researchers at Microsoft's computer science lab in Cambridge have developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system that they say overcomes the scheduling problems associated with existing distribution protocols such as Bit Torrent.

Quote from: The Register

Naturally, Microsoft is very keen to stress that this technology should be used for distributing legitimate content. It even put that in italics in the press material.

Read more (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/16/filesharing_microsoft/).

Title: Re: P2P program by Microsoft
Post by: jtpenrod on 21 June 2005, 21:07

"Naturally, Microsoft is very keen to stress that this technology should be used for distributing legitimate content. It even put that in italics in the press material."

;)  ;)

Title: Re: P2P program by Microsoft
Post by: bedouin on 21 June 2005, 21:14

Why is this surprising.  MS has been sharing your files (inadvertently) over the Internet ever since the invention of NetBIOS.