P2P in Vista: MeetingSpace!

Microsoft will add a new kind of peer-to-peer service (p2p) in Vista. With this tool, called Windows MeetingSpace, laptops users can share information with other nearby machines. Microsoft has built Windows MeetingSpace with the “People Near Me”-technology, that lets people share and view files. Microsoft is offcourse hoping this tool will convince people to either upgrade from Windows XP or buy a new Vista-equipped PC.

To use MeetingSpace you need a Wi-Fi connection, but you don’t have to be online. So it’s not your normal peer-to-peer system, Microsoft has made this tool so it can change the way people work in projects and make it better. If you want to give a presentation during a meeting, for example, you can use MeetingSpace to beam the presentation onto the screens of other laptops.

MeetingSpace, also known as Windows Collaboration, is made more stable in the latest Vista Beta 2.