Friday, August 25, 2006
More Details on Microsoft's Life Drive Revealed
Posted by Damion Chaplin in "CONTENT" @ 06:00 PM
"Microsoft has confirmed more details of its forthcoming Live Drive service, which will offer free online storage. 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."
Up to 2GB of free online storage space mapped directly to my desktop? Sounds good to me, though I do have some questions about identity verification, especially when trying to access your Drive from multiple machines and locations. Those will all be answered in time though, and in the meantime it's a question of whether Google's interested enough to beat them to the market before Vista's even released. I know if Google started offering a similar service today, I would probably start using it immediately and ignore any MS service that comes along later. How about you?
Up to 2GB of free online storage space mapped directly to my desktop? Sounds good to me, though I do have some questions about identity verification, especially when trying to access your Drive from multiple machines and locations. Those will all be answered in time though, and in the meantime it's a question of whether Google's interested enough to beat them to the market before Vista's even released. I know if Google started offering a similar service today, I would probably start using it immediately and ignore any MS service that comes along later. How about you?
