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As Google continues to fuel rumor mills-a-plenty about the unveiling of its online storage service, now Microsoft is also in the mill. Google's rumored "GDrive" has been joined lately by talk of Microsoft's "Live Drive" service, which would also give customers the ability to store vast amounts of information on Microsoft servers far away from homes and businesses.But Microsoft's service is not a rumor -- the company has confirmed its existence. Up to two gigabytes will be available to Microsoft Live Drive customers for free, with more storage available for a fee, which has not yet been disclosed. With Microsoft starting to pump up its "Live" services in anticipation of the launch of Windows Vista, it better hurry -- the Vista launch, unless it slips again, will be here in January 2007.
Google's rumored service may just be around the corner as well. But the company has not even speculated that it may be working on such a service, let alone that it may ever offer a service like this. No surprise, as Google loves to launch products with little to no official foreshadowing . Will the online storage "battle" be publicly won by Google or Microsoft -- and will customers trust large chunks of data to either company? For images and documents not of a sensitive nature, I think they will.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-27-2006 @ 8:04AM
TomLee said...
You open with, "As Google continues to fuel rumor mills-a-plenty..."
And wrap up with, "But the company has not even speculated that it may be working on such a service,..."
I'm left to wonder if you should even be taken seriously about anything you write. People carp about Google's ad affiliate programs enabling a lot of clutter to appear on the web, you and Blogging Stocks seems evidentiary enough.
8-27-2006 @ 10:12AM
Brian said...
Wow TomLee,
Sorry to offend you :-)
Might have made a slight faux pas is a contradictory statement...happens. But, thanks for your correction(s). Have a nice day.
Regards,
Brian
12-19-2006 @ 6:56AM
Brown said...
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