Comments on: Time For More Live Drive Online Storage Rumors

By: Eric Wahlforss » Blog Archive » What’s next panel #1

Eric Wahlforss » Blog Archive » What’s next panel #1 — Mon, 21 May 2007 07:46:25 +0000

[...] Microsoft’s plans and the future of online storage [...]

By: PJ_UK

PJ_UK — Wed, 16 May 2007 16:51:49 +0000

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

http://www.livedrive.com

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Tue, 15 May 2007 02:58:22 +0000

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.

By: Firefox Fan

Firefox Fan — Mon, 14 May 2007 03:46:48 +0000

250mb? it’s enough.. for thumbnails..

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 13 May 2007 16:56:11 +0000

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.

By: Dexter Zaf

Dexter Zaf — Sun, 13 May 2007 16:09:33 +0000

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

By: Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremiah Owyang — Sun, 13 May 2007 15:08:43 +0000

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/

By: Jamie Thingelstad

Jamie Thingelstad — Sat, 12 May 2007 23:56:35 +0000

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.

By: dersimli

dersimli — Sat, 12 May 2007 23:28:02 +0000

let us check Microsofts Beta Version…

By: other

other — Sat, 12 May 2007 23:19:41 +0000

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.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Sat, 12 May 2007 21:51:47 +0000

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.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 12 May 2007 21:43:36 +0000

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.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Sat, 12 May 2007 21:31:45 +0000

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

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 12 May 2007 21:30:40 +0000

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

By: Abdul Aziz

Abdul Aziz — Sat, 12 May 2007 21:18:37 +0000

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

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Sat, 12 May 2007 21:16:44 +0000

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

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 12 May 2007 21:15:29 +0000

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

By: Abdul Aziz

Abdul Aziz — Sat, 12 May 2007 21:05:08 +0000

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

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 12 May 2007 21:03:20 +0000

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

By: Kewtr

Kewtr — Sat, 12 May 2007 20:59:48 +0000

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.