You'd like to think there are places in the world that this would make a lot of sense - your phone and tablet could get updates that your PC woke up to download overnight, and all your devices avoid bottlenecking on a slow edge network.<p>It's also 2015, and I'm not sure we should celebrate that MSFT has not progressed on this since the early 00's.<p><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/p2p.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/p2p.aspx</a>
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