Comments on: Microsoft ups free online storage to 5GB

Software maker removes the beta tag from Windows Live SkyDrive and increases the storage limit to 5GB.

[deloggmore-2205361233581227240]

I'll wait

For some reason, although I like Microsoft, I'm uncomfortable with the idea of using them for online storage. I will wait till Google comes out with their own online storage. But good move for MS anyway.

[amarkj]

Trust Google with your data???

Umm not sure who I distrust most - Google or Microsoft.

[alokka]

Service is cool

There is lot of potential in the skydrive i think. We can write some code to service and have easy way to keep the files safe if we have high speed internet all around.

[dizzledorf]

Eee?

Where did that reference come from? Wacky.
"roughly the same amount of storage that came on my first generation iPod." Ummm, okay.

[deloggmore-2205361233581227240]

yep i trust google with my data

thanks for asking

[dhruvchopra]

Google! really?

Good luck in trusting Google with your data. This week people in Kuwait could see each other's inbox!

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9875714-7.html?tag=bl

[deloggmore-2205361233581227240]

well then,

I guess I'll just have to stay out of Kuwait from now on... I guess...

[AppleSuxLeo]

Sky Drive works great...less filling !

Even Leo X (Mr I hate MSFT) uses it and likes it.
And this FUD regarding MSFT just in...French boyscout troop # 401 has switched from Windows to Linux...Today the French police/boyscouts , tomorrow the world ! MSFT is shaking in their boots !

[-fjtorres-]

Eee, yes, and it makes sense...

A lot of folks are looking to the Eee PC as the model for an ultraportable "connectivity PC".

In the context of web 2.0 and Cloud OS SOA'es, a device like that is a very likely candidate for the "terminal" of choice, offering good enough keyboard, screen, and connectivity, and just enough local compute power to connect to the online services and data.

So comparing an online storage service to the local storage of a device likely to be conecting to it makes sense. In fact, if you add the storage of Skydrive to the storage at Hotmail and the storage at a photo-sharing site, plus the storage *not* needed for local apps if you rely on "Cloud" Apps, you'll have the equivalent of a 16 GB storage system. Add-in your own personal secure storage via thumbdrive/SDHC cards and you can double that. Which is about the right magnitude for an on-the run computer built around the idea of a mix between local and remote storage *and* local and remote processing power.

Not sure this is the way the business is going to evolve into, en-masse, but it is not unlikely that a section of the customer base would in fact be well-served by such a product. Especially at EeePC prices of $200-500.

[johnericanderson]

Yay Ina!

Ina,

This is how you should report about MS.
Facts only, no opinion.

Thank you.

[FalseToU]

Is WinLiveId required?

If Windows so-called Live ID is required, then non thanks. I have had a very bad experience with WinIDLive and am surely not going to use it for anything.

[jdereg]

Does the windows Live SkyDrive storage offer URL access to the storage? One of the main things I like about sites like http://www.myotherdrive.com is that I can not only store my files there, but I can create links to a subset of them, like for pictures used on eBay auctions or photos for Facebook / MySpace.

[msman_898]

thanks for cnet.

[onlineflash]

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