Once again Microsoft shows that it can’t keep it’s fat grubby fingers off something good and pure:
Microsoft researchers in Cambridge, UK, are developing their own peer-to-peer file-sharing software.
Codenamed Avalanche, the program makes it easy to share content by dividing files such as software, audio or video, into chunks, much like BitTorrent.
Using “network coding”, it can re-create missing blocks of data that can be used in place of missing chunks.
The reputation of file-sharing has been damaged by legal action after it was adopted to share copyrighted files.
Yet another case where Microsoft show they don’t want to use normal protocols and standards that the rest of the know world use, but desire to create their own and dominate. *sigh*
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Webby's World // Jun 21, 2005 at 9:21 pm
Stop! Think… Microsoft
Microsoft announced a few days back that it was planning to launch a P2P file-sharing system like Bittorrent. Downloads may be 20–30% more fast than the popular Bittorrent protocol. It will also be 200–300% faster than Bittorrent distribu…
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