Vista Meeting Space and the new Peer programming APIs

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Peer-to-peer is a magic word from few years back, and now Windows Vista provides us a new implementation of a nifty collaboration tool called Windows Meeting Space. For us software developers, what is the use of this utility? Well, you (and your team) could benefit from it just as other people, but there's another thing that matters to us: the APIs that Windows Meeting Space uses are open and available through the P2P.dll library (prototypes are declared in P2P.h). That's really cool!

For instance, there's PeerCollabEnumPeopleNearMe. I have to dig these interfaces once I have time, and see what they can do. Could be fun! :-)