Vista revs up peer-to-peer engine

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MORE big words about NO features in Vista.

`` But with Vista, Microsoft says it has put in place measures to ensure all parties know what they are getting into and are willing participants. People can choose whether to be seen or not in the "People Near Me" feature, and they can also decline or accept any particular invitation. Meanwhile, those hosting a session can choose not to broadcast their meeting and can also require users have a password, to keep out virtual party crashers.''

And THERE ARE features UNIQUE to Vista? IS this the best Vista has to offer? IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc LANs with password and authentication? Isn't it embarassment to be SO LATE in providing these common features?


``The intent of MeetingSpace is to allow nearby participants to communicate. That means that the technology is good for a gathering where all parties are in the same physical location. But for the case where one or more people are "dialing in" to the meeting, a Web conferencing product like WebEx or Microsoft's LiveMeeting is still needed. There is some capability to invite remote participants if their network supports version 6 of the Internet Protocol (IPv6). ''

So again what are the features that Vista is brining in? I don't see anything NOT already done before.

And since the issue here is "Ease of Collaboration while Security is Maintained" WHAT are the collaboration capabilities available here to participants? How is SHARING of objects and data taking place? Can objects be Read/Write? Who owns them? Is there distributed shared access of files and database objects? Is there a distributed locking mechanism and 2-phase commit protocol? Can object owenership and location MIGRATE? Are all these issues already SOLVED correctly and SECURELY?

All I see at this point a whiteboard that can be multicast + audio and video to/from participants. Thats fine but WHERE are the NEW features Vista is providing?

Distributed collaboration has been implemented in the mid-90s at UCB (MASH Project) with all of the above features already.

Much ado about nothing

Posted by: michael_t   Posted on: 05/31/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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