August 24, 2006 4:36 PM PDT
Microsoft reveals more about Live Drive
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Speaking at a blogger's breakfast before the opening of Microsoft's Tech Ed conference in Sydney on Tuesday, Microsoft Australia technical specialist John Hodgson said that the basic Live Drive was likely to include around 2 gigabytes of storage for free. Additional storage capacity will be available for purchase, he said, though pricing and final release dates haven't been announced.
While there have been rumors about Live Drive service in the blogosphere, to date Microsoft has been cagey about officially confirming those plans. What is known is that the service can be mapped directly from PCs running the upcoming Windows Vista operating system.
The service forms part of Microsoft's increasing push for Live, a portfolio of online tools designed to complement the much-delayed Vista, as well as to keep Microsoft competitive with online rivals such as Google. Google has not publicly acknowledged development of a virtual hard-drive service of its own, which has been speculated about in blogs and financial analyst reports.
Both companies already effectively offer free storage via their respective Web mail platforms, but such storage can't easily be mapped to an existing PC.
Angus Kidman of ZDNet Australia reported from Sydney.
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Microsoft if they had any sense would wait to see what Google bring out first, in order to make adjustments, because we all know Google's Gdrive will be better than Live Drive.
Microsoft aren't the kind of folks who should be beating Google to the chase.
Microsoft are the underdogs and should respect that, to protect their own interests against Google.
Vista, will Apple drop their £69 price tag for .Mac? Let's hope so!
Bought & paid for by Citizen Gates & Big Brother Balmer.
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There are tools that allow mapping a GMail account as a network drive and use it as a 2 GB storage.
details on:
http://en.utilidades-utiles.com/download-gmail-drive.html
Googlge GMAIL MAP DRIVE for more tools.
Disclaimer: I have not tried this tool myself.
The surest (and most cost effective) way to get word out about your service on the web is to act secretive about it. Every childish reporter and blogger then thinks that s/he has a "scoop" and dutifully informs others about this "breaking story".
Utnil its here, its just vaporware and should be treated as such.
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Check IBackup?s free trial and get ahead in life folks.
their backed-up/hosted files from any device, anywhere?...I've read several
articles that Microsoft and Google are looking into developing this, where-by
they will host the back-up for small businesses and consumers on their "server
farms" with infinite bandwidth for large amounts of data, email capabilities,
etc......
Sorry to break it to them, but we already have the patent for it (we received it
in 2005).
It's called Vdata (www.vdatacom.com) It is a complete "virtual office", complete
with capability to back-up ALL devices (cell phone, PDA's, Blackberry) and can
be accessed from anywhere, at anytime, online.
If you have any sources that you can contact at Microsoft, please inform them
immediately that we have the entire process under patent, and have put about
100K into the project, which we have just started launching. People thus far
are extremely happy with it!!! Essentially, it can (and will) replace a
companies IT people,and save millions in IT costs. I'll be happy to speak with
Microsoft if they would like to purchase the rights, but for now, I just want
people to be able to recover their data easily and from anywhere-without having to purchase software or hardware!!!!!!!!!! No more of the big boys taking your data and selling you more software to fix it!!!!!!!!
Thanks very much!!!!
Take care-
Stacey
www.vdatacom.com
Vdata, 773-871-7171