Microsoft Finally up for Distributed Computing?

ReeprFlame writes "eWeek has reported overhearing Microsoft's plans to finally get into the distributed computing market. Considering that the Windows platform has never had the ability to parallel compute in the past, it leaves great potential to the company's operating system development. From current *nix systems we have today, such a grid proves very useful, especially in the serving arena. However, we are unsure of Microsoft's target for the software. Would it be an addition to home users computers as well as the server versions of Windows? As of now it is unclear, but Microsoft probably will bring this situation to life in the near future since it does hold alot of power for them over other platforms."

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[Doc Ruby]

M$ 0wns the "distributed computing" business. What else do you call DDoS, worms, spam, and the incessant portscanning that represents so much Internet traffic, personal/business IT hourse spent, and malware protection business? Practically all running on a distributed network of Windows machines. But I guess it won't really work right until M$ charges everyone for the upgrade to v3.0.

Oh My God!

[Tibor the Hun]

Can you imagine how evil IE would be if it was networked together?

I think I just pooped my pants.

Re:DCOM, COM+ anyone?

[codepunk]

Does it have a clustered file system?

Nope, shut up and go back to playing with the hot wheels you got for christmas.

Re:Windows has been clustering for years

[twitter]

Q. What do you call a cluster of Windows machines? A. A botnet.

True, and this will make things better. A whole new API to exploit, glorious!