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Microsoft Reinvents Bittorrent

Posted by kdawson on from the but-do-they-give-credit-oh-no dept.

Anon E. Muss writes "Microsoft has a new Secure Content Downloader tool that sounds an awful lot like a Bittorrent clone. It's described as a 'peer-assisted technology' where '[e]ach client downloads content by exchanging parts of the file they're interested in with other clients, in addition to downloading parts from the server.' Right now MSCD is just a time-limited preview, intended to support downloads of select Microsoft beta releases (e.g. Visual Studio 2008). If this test goes well, Microsoft will probably start using MSCD for all their large downloads. How do you feel about subsidizing Microsoft's bandwidth costs?"

2 of 373 comments (clear)

  1. And what's wrong with this? by gakguk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You can subsidize people looking for more porn or crap handycam rips of just released movies from theaters, but you shouldn't help fellow developers looking forward to get their hands wet with new hot technology as soon as possible, ha? What a crap way of bashing MS. I'm a consultant, helping and working for people using tools and technologies from Microsoft. I'm really excited with all the new stuff coming with VS2008 / Framework 3.5 and having already downloaded VS2008 Beta2 VPC image, I would prefer getting it from a distributed network if I knew it.

  2. Re:bllizard, wow patcher by that+this+is+not+und · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I work 40 hours a week doing .NET programming.

    No matter what your chronological age, that has to get you whining like a 15 year old.