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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. Interesting Combination of Apps Coming Up by popo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It should probably be noted that Microsoft also bought FolderShare.com (which is a very sweet little app).

    The free-storage combined with FolderShare's file swapping is starting to paint an interesting picture... IMHO I wouldn't discount this as "trying to be like Gmail"...

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