Comments on: Vista revs up peer-to-peer engine

Windows update will let laptops share information with nearby machines without a Net connection.

[Captain_Spock]

The Thing is...

... OS/2 WARP has had a similar "peer-to-peer" capability since Version 3.0. (without "Wi-Fi). Is this new wine in an old wine skin!

Re:
"OS/2's peer-to-peer networking is compatible with Microsoft's, but in use they are like night and day. OS/2's peer-to-peer networking is fast and trouble free. OS/2 Warp Server is simply the fastest, most sophisticated general purpose server in existence, and nearly as stable as the best Unix has to offer.

We at Automation Access needed to migrate from Digital Research's multiuser DOS, and expected to use the soon to be released Windows95 from Microsoft. When we received our dealer pre-release, we quickly loaded it in anticipation - and just as quickly decided we didn't want to try to run a business on Win95.

We took a gamble and ordered OS/2 (Warp 3 at the time) and immediately liked it. We have run OS/2 ever since with no temptation to change. We can spend our time trying to keep our Client's Win95 computers working, not our own. We do keep one machine on the network that can be booted into Windows95 so we can use a few occasional programs that don't yet have OS/2 or Linux equivalents (mostly new scanners and cameras).

Our OS/2 workstations now connect to a Linux/Samba server, and connect to the same server over TCP/IP as a Unix/Linux host to run Appgen, a major Unix accounting package. OS/2 gets along very well with other systems, from Linux to mainframes."

http://www.aaxnet.com/design/os2.html

[J. Blow]

Puleese

Nobody gives a rat's a** about OS/2 or any of its "capabilities". It is dead, done, over, give it up.

[mcepat]

Hello? Its 2006

Last time I checked OS/2 is dead to IBM, time to get with the future there guy

I have a laptop running NT 3.51 and man I love it (:

[mcepat]

one more thing

Windows 95 machines should be killed, any of them.

Who the hell runs windows 95, at least run windows 2000

Its guys like you that delay vista because MS has to make everything backwards compatible for jerks like you

get the moths from your wallet and at least pay for windows 2000

I wish MS would be more like apple and say the hell with the older os's and just cut you right the frig off

[The_Nirvana]

Bonjour....

is a the zero configuration network in Mac OS X that already does this. You can share files or stream music through iTunes using this. It is not in any way a new concept (not even in OS X) and I am surprised that MS is making such a big deal about this. This is only a way of sharing files and services between computers on the same subnet and is definitely not P2P.

[rapier1]

P2P

Actually, it does have all the hallmarks of P2P. Decentralized
communications between peers using an overlay routing layer. How
are you defining P2P?

Also, I expect to use this service as much as I use bonjour (I own a
few Macs) which is not at all.

[kibets]

Apple

Nobody gives a rat's a** about OS X or any of its "capabilities". It is dead, done, over, give it up.

On the contrary

Apple is gaining more and more ground in several markets. OS X isn't dead, and yes, it's kicks Windows ass. The word Tuesday aught to be changed to Trollday with morons like you roaming free.

[irisfailsafe]

Mac OS AKA the creator of the GUI OS

A looser OS for a looser user...
It is clear that you narrow mind won't let you see for what they
is. Without Mac OS X, microsoft wouldn't have anything to make
a lousy copy...

[acefrenzy]

Start to care

The thing is, most of the things I've heard about about Vista are
def a rip-off. Peer-2-peer? I've had for 3 years with my Apple,
and it was the first one I owned. If you don't watch out, you'll be
using a Mac looking Vista. So basically if you don't care about OS
X, you're not going to care about Vista.

[cacross]

For those....

who think Vista is a copy of Mac OS X. Ummmm, I am not for sure but I dont think Mac OS X has this.

[jgustafson]

What are the mechanics of this feature?

It would be nice to know what the specific mechanics of this feature are. For example, gnome has a file sharing feature that does this. It uses WebDAV and multicast DNS (part of Rendevous). Simple, standard, easy. Hopefully Microsoft took a similar approach, but I'm not holding my breath considering their trackrecord.

[Fictia]

Groove or FolderShare based

..since MS bought both of these companies. MS's R&D is essentially comprised of nothing more than buying great technology and repackaging it. No complaints here. ;)