Microsoft Plans Gdrive Competitor

gambit3 writes "From Microsoft Watch: The MSN team is working on a new Windows Live service, code-named Live Drive, that will provide users with a virtual hard drive for storing hosted personal data. From early accounts, it sounds an awful lot like Gdrive, the still-as-yet-publicly-unannounced storage service from Google."

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Technical details

[Anonymous Coward]

MS uses custom Ajax calls to cause a blue screen of death on the client machine if gdrive fails for any reason ensuring data integrity. This is the first time MS has offered BSODs as a web service and promises a new world in software delivery.

Re:Technical details

[grimsweep]

This is the first time MS has offered BSODs as a web service and promises a new world in software delivery.

While notable, this has actually been around for a while. It's called 'ActiveX'.

it's not unpublicly not announced yet?

[pyrrho]

"still-as-yet-publicly-unannounced"

it's been publicly unnanounced, how the fuck do you pull that off?

I need that skill.

Re:it's not unpublicly not announced yet?

[ScrewMaster]

No, you mean it's to be unpublicly announced. Or something like that. I guess.

Re:free?

[Moofie]

You did see that it was from Microsoft, right?

Re:in what way is it like a non-existant product?

[Fred_A]

All those web companies are amazing, month after month they all come with the exact same ideas at the exact same moment.

It has to be INTELLIGENT DESIGN !

Re:Apple

[WhiteBandit]

Has Microsoft EVER invented anything original?

Surely you just! Ever heard of the Blue Screen of Death?

Re:Let's talk with our friends and relatives NOW.

[vux984]

We need to have these dicussions now, before many people make costly mistakes. It will save us time and effort in the long run, if we can wake up enough people to the potential issues that arise when using these services.

I find letting people blindly run headlong into the costly mistakes first makes them much better listeners afterwards.

Maybe I don't like my friends and relatives enough :)

Re:So...

[killjoe]

Dude. MS is going BURY google when this comes out. Google is going to go out of business!. How can they stay in business when MS has MSN? They are going to totally integrate their Xdrive with their desktop and MSN. It will be supercool because you can search your drive and the web and your xdrive from inside of word (only if you have IIS installed though).

Man google is dead now.

this gives me an idea...

[biglig2]

Do you think that if all the senior management at Google jumped off a cliff, Microsoft would do it too? I mean, it's be a worthwhile sacrifice, wouldn't it?