Microsoft Jumps On BitTorrent Bandwagon

Cachelogic, a network monitoring firm that conducted a worldwide survey of network activity during June 2004, found that BitTorrent accounted for 53 percent of P2P traffic and 35 percent of overall Internet traffic.

Seeing this as a good market, Microsoft had been following suit and they jumped on the bandwagon of BitTorrent file-sharing software. In 2005, Microsoft researchers in Cambridge, UK were working to develop peer-to-peer file sharing software to keep up with the demand.

Have you seen anything out there by Microsoft yet that might be developed or is this still in the works? I did find a peer-to-peer development kit at this location but no details to further my search. It seems to be included in the “advanced networking pack” but I have not seen use of it anywhere.

Code named Avalanche, the program was said to offer the same process of BitTorrent by dividing files up and offering them bit by bit. I have yet to see this on the market and the articles that I did see on ‘Avalanche’ were quoting that they had no official plans to include the software with any bundles or even to release the technology.

Using the same concept as BitTorrent in development is certainly a smart move and could be used in a business setting if released to the public.

They claimed to have securely created this technology so that instead of illegal uses, the software would be utilized for large file sharing between people that “knew” each other and gave specific permissions. I’ll continue to watch for this from Microsoft in the future.

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