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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. Too little...Slices. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "He made money by entering a market where the only real costs of manufacture are the initial R&D. As he is able to "value price" a product at ~£200 (windows) that has a per-unit cost of only a few pence (cd, booklet, box), he is a billionaire."

    Gee, mass production. Who would have thought you could apply that to the software industry?

  2. Been there. Done that. No thanks. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I have already had gmail now for 3 years. Why go back?