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This news will cause a true .... (d)revoluition in modern computing . happy
``Whenever Windows Vista computers arrive, they will have their own special way of talking to one another.''

hmmm how?


``Microsoft's new operating system, which won't arrive for consumers until early next year, has a new collaboration feature that allows laptops to share information with other nearby machines.''


Hold their horses there at ... Redmond! You mean that this is NOT ALREADY POSSIBLE? Has MS heard of IEEE 802.11 wireless Ad hoc networks? Or maybe the "article" writer is is that out of touch with reality? Or how about DHCP? Who needs a public Internet for those? What kind of BS is all that?


``The underlying technology is known as "People Near Me" and is being used by Microsoft for its own software projects and by other developers. The company has built one program based on it into Vista--Windows MeetingSpace--that lets people share and view files. ''

I thought that the ... "people near me" capabilities was already being used by creeps far away really to usurp control of a PC or even encrypt files and ask for ... ransom to decrypt them happy happy ....


Gezzzz it seems that someone at MS woke up one day in his cublical and got the big ... inspiration and started talking about .... peer-to-peer computing (which has been out anyways since the 70's in non MS platforms....
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... Who cares?  superbus | 05/30/06
agree  Linux Geek | 05/30/06
Your lack of imagination is staggering  marksashton | 05/30/06
Oooh, I smell a future security patch  Zeppo9191 | 05/30/06
Yup ....  Linux_4u! | 05/30/06
Wanna bet it defaults to "on"?  spark555 | 05/30/06
Whatever  FADS_z | 05/30/06
True, but what about...  Zeppo9191 | 05/31/06
Vista Bundled Edition  OhMyGosh | 05/30/06
And there is the beauty  Linux Advocate | 05/30/06
If Linux makes you feel "different" then more power to you  marksashton | 05/30/06
Every human  Linux Advocate | 05/30/06
A Microsoft innovation  Rick_K | 05/30/06
This news will cause a true .... (d)revoluition in modern computing . happy  michael_t | 05/30/06
Wow!  NonZealot | 05/30/06
Be assured that ANY usefull feature in VISTA would  michael_t | 05/30/06
Yep...pretty useless...  Cardinal_Bill | 05/30/06
I will use it.  FADS_z | 05/30/06
Why?  Fred Fredrickson | 05/30/06
One Vista is enough, others can use xp  FADS_z | 05/30/06
And this is a bug in XP  Richard Flude | 05/30/06
This is new?  Fred Fredrickson | 05/30/06
It appears to be an engine...  NonZealot | 05/30/06
What is new here is the security model ...  ShadeTree | 05/31/06
Ad hoc collaboration is the point  sophmore | 05/31/06
Sopho-more indeed  michael_t | 05/31/06
His minker may be sophmore but it ...  ShadeTree | 05/31/06
and if you weren't moros you could have answered to my points  michael_t | 05/31/06
Your arguements are just as childish as your ...  ShadeTree | 05/31/06
Didn't you just say that personal attacks are signs of lack of intelligence  michael_t | 05/31/06
We were not speaking greek(nt)  ShadeTree | 06/01/06
P.S. you should only use words you understand ...  ShadeTree | 05/31/06
I used the "moros" you find in "sopho-more"  michael_t | 05/31/06
The one whom is talking about a feature ...  ShadeTree | 06/01/06
You got part of it but didn't get it  sophmore | 05/31/06
It is simle really.  michael_t | 05/31/06
Message has been deleted.  NonZealot | 05/31/06
Isn't a littlle to already be drunk for today? ... geezzz  michael_t | 05/31/06
I'm I the only one who 'smelled' that IPv6 reference?  CTSTechs.com | 05/31/06
IPv6 provides native support for  michael_t | 05/31/06
MORE big words about NO features in Vista.  michael_t | 05/31/06
Cool cure new names for features that have always been there  yogeee | 06/30/06

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