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Microsoft Plans Gdrive Competitor

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the personal-virtual-bill dept.

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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  1. it's not unpublicly not announced yet? by pyrrho · · Score: 4, Funny

    "still-as-yet-publicly-unannounced"

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

    I need that skill.

    --

    -pyrrho

  2. Re:Apple by WhiteBandit · · Score: 3, Funny

    Has Microsoft EVER invented anything original?

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

  3. Re:Let's talk with our friends and relatives NOW. by vux984 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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 :)

  4. Re:Technical details by grimsweep · · Score: 3, Funny
    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'.