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I wonder how the Dropbox developers managed to get in contact with the Windows core TCP team. Maybe I'm too cynical, but I'm surprised that Microsoft would go o
by mwcampbell 5y ago
I wonder how the Dropbox developers managed to get in contact with the Windows core TCP team. Maybe I'm too cynical, but I'm surprised that Microsoft would go out of their way to work with a competitor like this.
- paxys 5y agoMicrosoft is a massive and highly compartmentalized company. Windows kernel developers have no reason to see Dropbox as a competitor.
- toast0 5y agoEven if OneDrive vs Dropbox is important, this is a win for Windows in general. People will switch OSes because the TCP throughput is better on the other side; it's easy to measure and easy to compare and makes a nice item in a pros and cons list. Fixing something like this can help lots of use cases, but may have been difficult to spot, so I'm sure the Windows TCP team was thrilled to get the detailed, reproducible report.