Por que a Microsoft alterou o limite de conexão TCP no Windows 8?

Question

Olhando através de uma instalação do Windows 8, notei que a Microsoft alterou o limite da coleta TCP pela metade para ilimitado.

Anteriormente, argumentava-se que um limite ajuda a conter a disseminação de software malicioso.

Por que o limite foi removido? O software da própria Microsoft usa um protocolo de download de estilo de torrent ou algum outro motivo maluco?

    

Answer 1

Isto não é novo para o Windows 8, ele começou com o Vista SP2

Microsoft appears to have a change of heart on the half-open outbound TCP connection attempts limit with the release of Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7, probably due to the fact that the limit never effective in stopping the spreading of worms and viruses, or Microsoft has grown more confident about security feature of newer operating system.

According to Notable Changes in Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Vista SP2 document published in conjunction with the release of SP2 RTM:

SP2 removes the limit of 10 half open outbound TCP connections. By default, SP2 has no limit on the number of half open outbound TCP connections.

The complete removal of the limit for half-open outbound TCP connections, which is defaulted to 10, was finalized with the release of Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP2 Build 17506. In fact, the half-open outgoing TCP connection limit has been bypassed by default since Windows Vista SP2 RC Build 16670. Previously, the changelog of SP2 showed that Microsoft looks like going to “add a registry key that enables modification of the maximum number of open TCP connections to increase application compatibility”.

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