Microsoft builds a better Bit Torrent

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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.

The researchers claim download times are between 20-30 per cent faster, using their network coding approach, than on systems that only code at the server, and between 200 and 300 per cent faster than distributing un-encoded information.

Full Article @ The Register

[Dark Steno]

Now microsoft wants to get involve in torrents?

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Now microsoft wants to get involve in torrents?

did you read the article?

[Afronaut]

Hehe,

I bet they going to release it, for free, with source code too.

Because that's what they do, all the time.

Damn blue-hats.

[maebach]

Bill GAtes. . .

[peat moss]

I guess its the old, if you can't beat them join them idea. That way if it ever becomes legit they have a step up.

[Darth Sushi]

Microsoft Torrent?

[rosco40]

Microsoft way of takeing out bit-torrent.If they release it I will never use it.

[BawA]

if thier gonna release a P2P, as far as they use the same principle of filesharing(no legal craps ) am with them, cuZ only MS can stand in the way of MPAA and RIAA.

[JMK]

it has a built in security so that you can only transfer MS signed programs, which pretty much makes transfering music, movies, etc out of the question... Unless... of course someone just happened to make a crack for it

read more here: http://blogs.msdn.com/hgao/archive/2...10/428194.aspx