What is WSD, WSD Scanner, and WSD Printer

Lately I frequently heard about the jargon WSD flying around me. So I know that WSD stands for Web Services On Device, the basic idea is to allow accessing/controlling the device remotely through web service. In addition, I suppose in the WSD framework it also defines ways for device to broad cast events (e.g. powering up, entering sleeping…etc) to the entire subnet.

 
 

I still have little idea about the big picture, but I guess it would be a big part of my life from now to the rest the year. Let's see what WSD would do.

 
 

Here is a link to a quick start of WSD:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480212.aspx

 

Got something new to learn everyday I guess…