Time For More Live Drive Online Storage Rumors

Don’t know why, but I would prefer to use a Microsoft storage service, even with less features, than the others.

Seems like it’ll work with my machine better, although I’m sure that’s not necessarily true. Anyway, look forward to the finished work.

Mike, the service is to be called Windows Live Folders, not Live Drive. Live Drive was an incorrect codename used by Ray Ozzie which has since stuck. The correct codename is Sky Drive.

For more info on the difference:
http://www.liveside.net/blogs/.....3F00_.aspx

Too bad they aren’t providing any extra features such as mobile access or desktop synchronization/integration with Vista which would make it worth shifting to Windows Live Folders from AOL’s XDrive or Box.net

Guys this is all pre-beta stuff, something which Mike didn’t mention above. The juicy bits will come later.

Chris, thanks for the update on the name. How do you know that “juicy stuff will come later”?

It might be Alpha/pre-Beta but I don’t find Microsoft “innovating”

Mike: Windows Live is what we do. You only have to look at any of the other beta programs they have run to know you don’t get the best stuff at the start

Chris - so, you are making an assumption and nothing more? Just trying to get all the facts.

Mike I’m under NDA as a Windows Live MVP so I can’t say anything more. We can take this offline if you want to clarify our position as bloggers v MVPs.

Remember these guys potentially have to scale to millions of users, so they can’t move as fast as a startup. Getting the basics right at the beginning is key.

Chris - good post, enjoyed the screenshots, I have sub’d to your feed. Would be great if the news broke on liveside! The juicy bits I mean.

The online storage space is certainly heating up - right in time for summer heat! I think MS could do a good job in this area.

Google’s service would probably be better than most currently out there, but then again, at least I can use those. GDrive has been vaporware for over a year. For a company with their infrastructure, it is NOT that hard to run an online storage facility, and yet they still haven’t put it out. I’m sure it’ll be released with a couple of minor “benefits” a la gmail, but nothing spectacular.

let us check Microsofts Beta Version…

The extremely limited functionality suggested seems so very odd given that Foldershare, the product they acquired in a similar space, does so much more. I’m still an avid user of Foldershare and am hoping that some day they do something (hopefully positive) with it. It’s a great, transparent, simple product.

Michael

I’m watching this space carefully, there’s quite a few players emerging, about 100 startups, as well as enterprise companies.

I ultimately believe this will be a feature play for many companies, here’s a list of those Enterprise Companies I’m tracking

http://www.web-strategist.com/.....a-storage/

This is a good service for MS. I used Live sometimes but never know some of its feature.

Eh… I’m unimpressed.

Amazon released s3 over a year ago now (or was it two?) and that blows all these services out of the water. Sure it’s neither free nor consumer facing, but it’s cheap and there’s a ton of third party utilities that make it easy to use. I’ve been using it for my backup server for the last several months; this from Microsoft just doesn’t look like it’d be up to that task, at least not before seriously upping the storage limit.

250mb? it’s enough.. for thumbnails..

We could use some new competition in this arena. Right now some services are okay, but we need a commodizing factor by one of the large manufacturers. Amazon’s S3 has good potential, except for the fact that they don’t handle files larger than 5 GB.

Microsoft had to can the name LiveDrive as it is used by a UK based competitor…

http://www.livedrive.com