Apr 19 2005

Peer-to-peer in Longhorn

Published by Martin at 11:19 am under Microsoft

I received the following email from Michael Surkan at Microsoft. After asking him to verify his identity, a little looking around let me know I’m not the first to receive the same request. I’m posting the link because I think it’s more important to give feedback and have some small influence on the direction MS is going. The survey takes about 10 minutes to take, and is relatively innocuous. Make up your own mind about whether you want to take it or not.

And here’s a link to someone who did a lot more checking into Mr. Surkan, though this was about a different survey he was looking for input on. The author of this page declined Mr. Surkan’s request because he feels Microsoft is just trying to get something for nothing. I feel this is kind of like voting for President; if you didn’t vote, you have no right to complain.

Martin,

I am trying to collect customer input on some networking features Microsoft is considering in Longhorn that I thought you might want to pass on to some of your blog readers. If you think the current project I am working on would be of interest to your blog readers, I would love it if you could post my survey link. If you don?t think this would be of interest to your readers that?s ok.

The Microsoft network product team is investigating ways of resolving peer-to-peer connectivity problems in Longhorn, and we would like to get customer feedback to help validate some of the design proposals.

Today, there are many situations where users are unable to run such functions as remote assistance, voice/video conversations, and many other peer-to-peer functions because of firewalls, NATs and other network configuration problems. Our goal is to build networking technology into the operating system that will overcome many of these problems, allowing these peer-to-peer scenarios to ?just work?.

This survey outlines some of the proposals for resolving these connectivity problems, and asks for feedback on them. We would love to get the opinions from a wide range of users, and markets (e.g. consumers, large IT departments, etc) since this would have implications for everyone.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=25832974669&c=mmb

Thanks,

Michael Surkan

Program Manager,

Networking & Devices

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One Response to “Peer-to-peer in Longhorn”

  1. # elambon 24 Apr 2005 at 12:42 am

    Interesting. I hear that LongHorn might have RSS built in. If that is the case, I wonder if the Government will go after them again. I hope its true.