Comments on: Microsoft Betas: Windows Live Photo Gallery; Microsoft Live Drive Here

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:15:25 +0000

@Garth:
Learn English, you ingrate!

By: Fresh Mexican Food Fan

Fresh Mexican Food Fan — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:40:01 +0000

I lost some pictures when they shuttered MSN Photos (http://photos.msn.com) a few years ago. Didn’t have enough time to move my pictures. I hope this new service won’t have the same fate.

By: The race to own my digital assets - will Microsoft be in the money? « Great Falls Ventures

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:45:57 +0000

[...] IPTV, gaming consoles, and MSN as examples of where they are taking a long view of return), just announced the beta Windows Live Folders, their hosted storage-in-the-cloud play for consumer. I am happy to [...]

By: Microsoft Announces Next Generation of Windows Live at My GotChance

Microsoft Announces Next Generation of Windows Live at My GotChance — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:13:13 +0000

[...] two new products are fairly typical web 2.0 products - TechCrunch has a good write-up. But just quickly, Photo Gallery is a Flickr-like photo sharing app with all the [...]

By: Mary Bresticker

Mary Bresticker — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:53:21 +0000

@#7 bdb

I think at this point, we can safely say that Google is steadily climbing further away from “underdog” status. As markus said, the kind of publicity Google is receiving at present just for blowing their nose is astounding. They’re kind of like the Paris Hilton of the tech field.

As for the technology, it certainly needs to get a bit more robust, but I am glad MS is finally offering this, putting my faith back into the potential of the Live suite.

-Mary from BINC

By: xxdesmus

xxdesmus — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:29:34 +0000

Live Folders is currently pathetic in terms of features.

For example, upload an image …it does not even auto thumbnail the image for you. That is really sad.

They need a better multi-file uploading tool. I suggested they use a java applet or some kind of tool created using silverlight.

500MB is nothing these days, but rumor has it they will offer 5GB+ of storage once this goes publicly available.

It’s a start, but it’s a VERY basic start.

Box.net owns this, hands down.

By: John McKinley

John McKinley — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:11:16 +0000

While it was great to finally see Live Folders hit beta, it shocked me to see how tactical its value proposition it (both in terms of space and intelligent asset management). In a time that Microsoft needs to position itself as an entrypoint for consumer information access, it feels like a missed opportunity. More feedback on what a winning play in the space might be at http://www.greatfallsventures.com.

By: Google Docs and Spreadsheets

Google Docs and Spreadsheets — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:05:04 +0000

[...] ми критика и за да не останат назад представиха две нови онлайн услуги от серията Windows Live. Първата от тях е Windows Live Photo Gallery (за съжаление все още [...]

By: John

John — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:14:08 +0000

Photosynth wasn’t acquired by Microsoft - it was developed within Microsoft Research.

By: James Burns

James Burns — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:58:01 +0000

Thanks for confirming why I have not found a download for Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta for XP. I used several search results and read several blogs before it finally dawned on me as I read the comments here. I was convinced that I was looking for something that was already available.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:50:48 +0000

The Windows Live Drive is great news. I hope Microsoft will push ahead in this field and up the ante as Google’s GMail did for storage limits on email.

By: Nick Gonzalez

Nick Gonzalez — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:30:25 +0000

Because it integrates with everything else you own.

By: Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech

Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:38:06 +0000

Windows Live Folders…

By Jimmy Daniels
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Windows Live Folders, formerly referred to as Live Drive, a much better name, IMHO, has entered beta, or rather, a managed beta, whatever that means. The service is supposed to start with 500Mb of onli…

By: Spiel

Spiel — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:15:03 +0000

I agree as the other’s said, Microsoft is always one year too late on technology.

Box.net, Picassa, Flickr, all these just work perfectly for me, so why would I want to switch to another product, nevertheless a Microsoft product?

You get the point!

By: Nick Gonzalez

Nick Gonzalez — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:04:20 +0000

Well, with over 300 million users on their platforms and Windows updater, they have a pretty robust method of pushing releases.

By: markus941

markus941 — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:40:53 +0000

Nothing short of curing cancer will give Microsoft the kind of publicity Google gets.

By: Nick Gonzalez

Nick Gonzalez — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:53:00 +0000

To answer earlier questions, Folders is a managed (private) beta, so there is no link and Photo Gallery didn’t have a link in the info provided to me. Looks like folders.live.com is actually working. I just signed up for an account.

I really like what MSFT is doing around Live with web and desktop integration through software. I think it’s just hard for some people to see the whole picture when there are so many releases going on.

By: Julien

Julien — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:47:45 +0000

This is kind of an AllPeers thing, but limited to files and folders

By: caliman

caliman — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:30:43 +0000

It’s not that microsoft doesn’t do a good job. Clearly they have the resources to do whatever they like. It just seems they always copy someone else. I run xp and love it but I’m already entrenched on myspace, google maps, youtube, and picassa so their late entry into these areas are simply not on my radar. You can argue all day about who’s better but one thing’s clear. They weren’t first.

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:22:08 +0000

This looks pretty good. I’m not a Live user (besides maps), but its great to see MS really building out a solid suite of products and integrating them reasonably well.

By: atomic1fire

atomic1fire — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:06:54 +0000

Im waiting till they give the xbox(whichever one is out by then) livedrive support
it would defeat the purpose of modding if they made the xbox more multimedia oriented
but if it happens expect it to come with restrictions(drm)

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:37:10 +0000

Looks very cool…. We’re working on a similar project called Sea Drive, which has all of these features but we’re looking to partner via API with various application providers.

By: cloudos

cloudos — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:46:27 +0000

Interesting, this sounds like a proto cloud / web os. Is this market finally getting some traction within the consumer market? Enthusiasts have been arguing over the utility of such systems for sometime now, perhaps it is the time that John Q. Public casts a vote?

By: scott

scott — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:29:39 +0000

I think this looks good!

By: Concrete Stain

Concrete Stain — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:10:59 +0000

MS and Y to work together only after MS buys Yahoo -

- Looks like a good product, I wish they would have just released a better XP - instead of a weak sauce Vista -

-RB