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Microsoft interest in BitTorrent technology


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Microsoft Research - Downloads

http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/

BitTorrent Simulator

http://research.microsoft.com/~cormac/

A simulator of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol. This simulator enables variation of BitTorrent parameters and study of BitTorrent performance under various traffic scenarios. Particular attention is paid to bandwidth utilization, efficiency, and fairness. Please visit the BitTorrent Simulator web site for more information.

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Meh I wouldn't say this webpage itself is an actual indication that Microsoft is interested in BitTorrent (though they probably are). Just like Avalanche, Singularity, or a bunch of other things coming from Microsoft employees, it's an employee research project at best, not necessarily indicative of Microsoft's interests/intentions.

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That is right, it's just an internal research project, but at least they gave it a go, most probably to investigate whether is worth to implement it (or a form of it) in MS applications for certain purposes (probably large content delivery).

Apparently, CMU & MS Research came up with a paper on the subject, maybe it's worth something:

Analyzing and Improving BitTorrent Performance

http://research.microsoft.com/~padmanab/papers/msr-tr-2005-03.pdf

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