Microsoft's Sneak Attack On Apple: SkyDrive, Not Surface

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 30, 2012 @07:40AM from the as-long-as-it-works-on-my-windows-phone dept.

New submitter curtwoodward writes "Microsoft won't become a hardware company — unless you count mice and keyboards, former Microsoftie Charlie Kindel argues — because that would mean competing with Apple on its terms. But Kindel says Microsoft may be embarking on a totally new business model by seeding its connected software services across all platforms. You saw more evidence this week with the release of SkyDrive for Android. 'For that to work, it can't just be Windows,' he says. 'As a matter of fact, to beat Apple, it has to work really well on Apple devices.'"

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Re:Hotmail for storage? by Dan667 · 2012-08-30 07:58 · Score: 0, Troll

based on microsoft's track record I don't think I would trust them with my data, both reliability and privacy. And I am not sold on the new marketing "cloud". Mainframes have their place, but all the problems with them did not go away just, because they renamed then "the cloud". No on cares about your data as much as you do.