Microsoft Reinvents Bittorrent

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?"

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Re:How do you feel about subsidizing Microsoft's c

[slughead]

How do you feel about subsidizing Microsoft's cost?

AWESOME! They're going to pass their savings onto me, right!? ...

Subsidizing MS bandwidth?

[poptones]

Aren't we already?

Re:Flamebait much?

[OmegaBlac]

Seriously, what is the point of this nonsense article, just to get the groupthink all riled up?

Well it is SOP to have at least one of these articles at least once a day here. Hell, I wouldn't be able to make it through the day without the daily 2-minute Microsoft Hate.

Double standards?

[jb.hl.com]

How do you feel about subsidizing Microsoft's bandwidth costs?

The same way I feel about Canonical's. Or Fedora's. Or Gentoo's. Or Blizzard's. Or Demonoid's. Or iPodNova's. Or the eDonkey network's. Or ThePirateBay's.

It's P2P, remember, the thing everyone here loves? And now there's more of it! Must be a good thing. Although I'm sure if Microsoft started handing out free chocolates and flowers, before going on to start selling Linux distributions and releasing the entire code of the Windows kernel under the BSD license, you'd find some reasons to kick up a fuss about that, as well.

Re:Old news

[RAMMS EIN]

``It allows for what Microsoft calls "peer caching."''

Did you mean: *kaching*?

Re:How do you feel about subsidizing Microsoft's c

[ricree]

Neutral.
I hate these filthy Neutrals, Kif. With enemies you know where they stand but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me.

here's how I feel

[botkiller]

"How do you feel about subsidizing Microsoft's bandwidth costs?""

Kinda dirty and used, but no different from how I felt after installing Vista.

Re:bllizard, wow patcher

[nakkenakuttaja]

For me personally the answer is simple: Nothing gives me more pleasure than reading serious Microsoft bashing. It's really one of the main reasons why I read Slashdot. And I'm 46 years old. Being anti-Microsoft is a universal feeling for all generations, genders, races etc. It really brings our minds and hearts together no matter if you are 15 or 46. And often saves my day and it makes me feel so good inside!

Re:bllizard, wow patcher

[PopeRatzo]

Nothing more childish than calling people "childish".

yes, they are!

[commodoresloat]

They have this great new program going on where they will pay you for forwarding email. They will pay you $245 for every person you forward an email to, and then another $243 for every person who forwards that email, and so on. Within two weeks, Microsoft will contact you for your address and then send you a check!

Re:bllizard, wow patcher

[Bender Unit 22]

Let me end it.

You sir, are worse than Hitler!

Re:bllizard, wow patcher

[Thing 1]

Is mentioning "embrace and extend" alone worth an "insightful", even if it makes absolutely no sense in context?

When I receive the proper embrace, I extend. If all goes well, we extinguish the lights?