Rendezvous, Microsoft And Apple

serendigital writes "MacCentral reports that a BusinessWeek article entitled: 'A Rendezvous with Redmond?' has -- with Rendezvous -- created an actual threat to Microsoft. As reported by MacCentral, it's interesting to note that BusinesWeek's 'Byte of the Apple' columnist Charles Haddad is on temporary leave and this article was written by a substitute columnist."

Comments

bandwidth usage?

[MikeFM]

Does anyone have stats on how this effects bandwidth usage? Am I right in understanding this is some sort of protocol that allows each network device to broadcast what ports it has open to everyone else on the network all the time? How does this differ from how Windows machines auto-find each other in their Network Neighborhood?