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LeeBackWeb Technologies, an Israeli firm, has sued Microsoft for using its three Transparent Update Patents.
Microsoft Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) is the feature that is accused on using the patents. It debuted in Windows XP in 2001. It is also present in Windows Vista, Server 2003 and 2008. It is a file-transfer service and it is a core part of Windows Update.
BITS was updated in Windows Vista in 2007. Version 3.0 adds peer-to-peer characteristics that let computers on the same subnet share files to one another.
Source: COMPUTERWORLD
Now come on. Knowing how “Windows” actually came to be a Microsoft product…..does this infringement actually surprise anyone?
I think this is just the first retaliation in a long one-upmanship war against Microsoft after MS has been sueing companies for patent infringment.
Backweb Infringing Transfer Service. :p
Version 3.0 adds peer-to-peer characteristics that let computers on the same subnet share files to one another.
Isn’t that what a network is for? I’ve shared files on a wireless network with Windows 98 machines before, that probably started out as Windows 95 machines.