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You say SkyDrive, I say LiveDrive

You say SkyDrive, I say LiveDriveBrand Names 'nothing to write home about' ...... why then is your electronic pen in evidence?Windows Home Server must, by definition, be in the class of home-writeable entities ;-)Live Sky Dive To LinuxMicrosoft can't even get the desktop software right; would you really trust your...

Tags: Branding, LiveDrive, SkyDrive, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-08-09

You say SkyDrive, I say LiveDrive

Windows Live branding has been nothing to write home about. It turns out even the Live codenames have been a source of confusion.Case in point: Windows Live Folder Share and Windows Live Folders the service which may or may not ultimatly be branded as Windows Live SkyDrive.Microsoft execs -- including...

Tags: Codename, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Windows Live Branding, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-08-08

Microsoft tees up LiveDrive hosted-storage service

Microsoft tees up LiveDrive hosted-storage serviceget outside of M$ box a little more Mary Jo.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GmailFSI use it...Yeah, right!"Password-protected online file storage. Always available where you need it."Okay, let me stop laughing just long enough to say that I would NEVER trust this. I mean seriously, the Live services have...

Tags: E-mail providers, GDRIVE, storage, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Google Gmail, LiveDrive, GMAILFS

Discussion threads 2007-05-12

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Microsoft SkyDrive no longer just a beta

Microsoft launched the final gold version of its Windows Live SkyDrive consumer storage service on February 21. Windows Live SkyDrive -- which has been known by a variety of names, including LiveDrive and Windows Live Folders (but not FolderShare, which is something else entirely) -- is a...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-21

Google's new storage service

It is about frikkin' time!18 months ago the storage world was abuzz with the hints of Google's Gdrive, a rumored free(?) online storage service that was going to change everything. Microsoft was working feverishly on a counter-product "LiveDrive". Only it never happened. Finally, Google has made its move!And what a...

Tags: Google Inc., Storage, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-08-15

Microsoft's renamed Windows Live SkyDrive service gets a refresh

As LiveSide.net predicted, Microsoft has, indeed, decided to dump the "Windows Live Folders" branding and go with Windows Live SkyDrive for its cloud-storage service that is in beta test.SkyDrive was one of the codenames Microsoft used for its storage service during its development. (Microsoft is saying that LiveDrive also was...

Tags: Storage, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Service, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-08-09

News to know: Linux; XP SP3; MySpace profits; HTC Advantage unwrapped

Notable headlines:Paula Rooney: Torvalds, Red Hat are no shows at Linuxworld. Novell CEO Calls For New Linux Distro ISV Standard, Praises FSF.Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft confirms Windows XP SP3 pre-beta is in testers' hands. A Microsoft Code Name a Day: Volta. You say SkyDrive, I say LiveDrive. Ed Bott: A confusing...

Tags: Google Inc., Linux, High Tech Computer Corp., Google News, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., MySpace, IBM Corp., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-08-09

Next-gen Windows Live services to provide software plus a service

After months of near silence, Microsoft's Windows Live team is starting to talk about the consumer-facing element of its Software+Services strategy.Software+Services (S+S) is Microsoft's alternative to software-as-a-service SaaS. Unlike Google, Salesforce.com and other pure-play Web 2.0 companies, Microsoft is making sure that there's both a services and a software component...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Service, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-06-27

Enough with the 3D maps! What about Windows Live storage?

Enough with the 3D maps! What about Windows Live storage?Microsft strategy and 3DMary Jo .. I agree. The maps/ 3D thing is interesting, but its not going to change the world. What about a Google Docs type app that also resides on the destop.... network storage ... Microsoftdrive,...

Tags: Operating systems, 3D, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Live, Pocket PC, storage

Discussion threads 2007-05-29

Enough with the 3D maps! What about Windows Live storage?

Another day, another glitzy Live Search map. (Or is it a Live Map, Live Local Map or a Virtual Earth Map? Who can keep up?)What I really want to hear about isn't who has better 3D buildings, Microsoft or Google. I want more details on Microsoft's storage services. Luckily, the...

Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Windows Home Server, Windows Live

Blog posts 2007-05-29

News to know: Microsoft vs. open source; Wi-Fi security; AMD; Halo 3

Notable headlines:Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: Free and open source software violates 235 Microsoft patents. Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents. Fortune: Microsoft takes on the free world.AMD goes quad-core with Phenom.George Ou: Why VPN cant replace Wi-Fi security.Ryan Naraine: Hacker demos how to defeat Citibank’s virtual keyboard.David...

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-05-14

Microsoft tees up LiveDrive hosted-storage service

For more than two years, thereve been tips circulating that Microsoft was readying an online storage service, code-named LiveDrive. Finally, the service part of Microsofts hosted consumer storage offering -- Windows Live Folders -- is about to go to beta, according to the LiveSide.Net. Microsofts positioning slogan for Live...

Tags: Web browsers, Windows Live Folders, Microsoft Windows Live, storage, beta, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2007-05-12

Windows Live Calendar, Presence coming soon to a dev platform near you

With its official announcement of the "Windows Live platform beta" at Mix 07 this week, Microsoft made available to developers a number of application programming interfaces APIs and controls upon which they can build their own applications and mashups. Missing from the list were a couple of key building...

Tags: Windows Live, Web 2.0, MIX07, Google, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-05-02

Connecting the dots on Windows 7

What will Windows 7, the next full version of the Windows client operating system, bring to the table? Even though Windows Vista just made it out the door, it doesnt seem to early for the speculation on its successor to begin. And Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has become one...

Tags: Bill Gates, Corporate strategy, Microsoft Windows, Vista, Windows 7, Windows client, Windows Live

Blog posts 2007-02-04

Windows Home Server prototypes on parade

Windows Home Server prototypes on paradeCan I have an invisible box?I don't like clogging my already full home entertainment racks with another "stylish" box, whether is it from Microsoft/Apple or whoever. I want a box that is invisible.OK, I know that "invisibility" is not possible. What I mean is something...

Tags: server, conglomeration, Microsoft Corp., Windows Home, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-01-09

Windows Home Server prototypes on parade

Over at the Microsoft press tent at the Consumer Electronics CES Show, Microsoft is showing off a few protypes of its just-announced Windows Home Server product. Although there were rumors circulating over the past month that Windows Home Server would be based on Windows Vista, thats ...

Tags: Operating systems, Servers, Microsoft Windows, Windows Home Server, Windows Home, server, VanRoeckel

Blog posts 2007-01-08

Windows Home Server: What's inside?

The Windows Home Server cat is finally out of the bag. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates officially announced the existence of the Windows Home Server at his January 7 Consumer Electronics Show CES kick-off keynote. During his remarks, Gates offered almost no details about the forthcoming systems, other...

Tags: Servers, Operating systems, Windows Home Server, Windows Home, server, Microsoft Windows, Home Server

Blog posts 2007-01-08

Microsoft revises its Windows Live developer platform vision

Microsoft is tuning its vision for the the Windows Live Platform which is at the center of its Windows Live strategy. The Windows Live development platform that Microsoft envisions now is different in several key ways from the one that company officials outlined last year. At a...

Tags: vision, Microsoft Windows Live, API, Scott Swanson, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Windows Live Platform, Microsofts

Blog posts 2007-01-07

Windows Live: Don't expect of much of a splash at CES

Is 2007 finally going to be the year Windows Live gets more airplay? If so, it doesnt seem like there will be much of a concerted Live presence at the Consumer Electronics Show CES next week. Sounds like the Soapbox on MSN Video aka Microsofts YouTube alternative team will be...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Consumer Electronics Show

Blog posts 2007-01-03

What's inside Microsoft's new Windows Home Server?

Microsoft is definitely going to talk -- at long last -- about its plans for Windows Home Server (code-named "Quattro") at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, according to my sources. But what will this product be? Thats still murky. Will it be based on the Windows Server core?...

Tags: Windows Home Server, CES 2007, Windows server, Windows client, Windows Server Longhorn, Vista, server, Windows Home, Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2006-12-29