p2p news / p2pnet: Bill and the Boyz may have a secret weapon hidden away in their ‘how to make people buy our stuff’ arsenal.

It’s called p2p.

Microsoft hopes, "spiffy features like MeetingSpace will persuade people to pay up for Vista once it’s launched," says CNET News, going on:

"The underlying technology is known as ‘People Near Me’ and is being used by Microsoft for its own software projects and by other developers."

It lets people share and view files.

"The feature requires the laptops to have built-in Wi-Fi (nearly all notebooks do these days), but does not require Internet access, since the technology uses peer-to-peer connections," says CNET.

But, letting PCs to connect to one another easily raises security challenges, "the main one being that people may be duped into connecting to someone they are not looking to share with".

Can you think of any more?

Also See:
CNET News – Vista revs up peer-to-peer engine, May 30, 2006

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