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Microsoft to Offer Free Online Storage

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-first-500-megs-are-free dept.

athloi writes "Microsoft Corp. is giving computer users up to 500 megabytes of online storage for their documents, music, photos and video. They're offering it to a select 5,000 test users for now, but will make it widely available later this summer. This move is the latest in a series by the previous large corporation we all loved to hate to compete with the newest large corporation we might hate and fear, Google."

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  1. and how! by twitter · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Too little too late, indeed. .mac springs to mind as do dozens of specialized services from Yahoo, Google and others. Offerings by "social networking" sites and photo sharing sites redouble it all. How much do you want to bet that M$ adds insult to injury by selling adverts on the service?

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    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.