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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yeah ... right

[FudRucker]

not a chance, no thanks

Re:You'd have to be a fool to use something like t

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You'd have to be a fool to use something like this for anything other than data that you have absolutely no problem with becoming completely public. ... I don't care how good they claim their "safeguards" are ... They do only that which is in their best interests, not yours

You can say that about "real" M$ products as well as their vapor ware!

They are still developing the extortion.

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I'm not sure you should compare this to xdrive. Like most M$ comairisons, it's a slander to the original. A quote or two in The Fine Article shows M$ is in the most rudimentary of planning stages:

Sources close to Microsoft described that service as one where Microsoft would back up users' personal files on CD and/or DVD. Users also would be able to back up financial files, legal documents, digital photos, online music and home videos, and even put their most important files into a "digital safe-deposit box," hosted by Microsoft, sources said.

At this point, Steve Baller, who has forbidden his children's use of IPod for the same thing, is probably imagining a real "safe-deposit" box reached by mailing your CD to Microsoft. "That's some nice data you got there, it'd be a shame if the OS you are using messed it up. Why don't you mail me what you think is important sose I can protect it for you? For a low monthly fee, I'll make sure nothing happens."

ownership

[Zoxed]

Microsoft: All your data are belong to us.