Microsoft philosophy for 20 years has been "information at your fingertips". MSFT is all about pushing control to the edges, and enabling P2P scenarios. Google philosophy is "all the world's information, stored on our servers, and charge a toll to get it back". An edge-based, P2P scenario is superior technically, and the economics are better in the long run (except in the specific case of global metadata, which I explained in the whitepaper 5 years ago). |joshua allen

fantastico!