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Microsoft Pulls PC-To-PC Sync From Vista
Posted by: Tweaker
Date added: 08:55, 8th June 2006 GMT
Source: Information Week
Microsoft is eliminating yet another feature from Windows Vista, this time peer-to-peer technology that would synchronize data on multiple PCs. Microsoft says the quality isn't good enough.
Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that it will yank yet another feature from Windows Vista, this time PC-to-PC Sync, a P2P-based technology for keeping files up-to-date on multiple machines.
"While PC-to-PC Sync is a great feature that improves productivity and collaboration we don't have it at the quality level our customers demand," a company spokesperson said in an e-mail. "As a result the decision was made to remove it from Windows Vista."
Part of a broader synchronization update in Vista -- the operating system will have a prominent Sync Center for all such chores, including synchronizing PCs with servers and mobile -- PC-to-PC Sync was based on peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, and would have let Vista users sync the contents of specialized folders, including the by-default Documents, Pictures, and Music, between multiple PCs on wired or wireless networks.
Analysts characterized the feature as an extension of the old Offline Files technology and the Windows XP SyncToy, with part of the P2P FolderShare utility -- a 2005 acquisition by Microsoft -- thrown in for good measure.
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