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LiveSide - News blog

Windows Live Folders Part III

Posted May 12 2007, 10:15 PM by Chris with 11 comment(s)

Just a few more points on Windows Live Folders:

  • The Windows Live Folders homepage is now offline.
  • The beta has not started and there is no signup page yet either. Subscribe to our RSS feed if you want to know when this is available.
  • The 500MB storage being offered during the beta is unlikely to be the final figure. Why tip the game away to competitors during the beta phase before it launches?

Also, I admit that I used the codename "Live Drive" as opposed to the correct name "Sky Drive" as the former has a well defined (if wrong) concept outside of Microsoft. We tried before to correct this error but it didn't work. Blame Ray Ozzie for that one :)

Previously:
Windows Live Folders beta - more info
"Live Drive" is almost here - Windows Live Folders beta

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LosHavros wrote re: Windows Live Folders Part III
on Sun, May 13 2007 2:13 AM

Meh, should still be called Live Drive.  Using Homail for storage/using Live Folders for storage seems to be the same to me- online storage.  It should just be Live Drive: simple, and catchy.  Correct me if I'm wrong.

simseb wrote re: Windows Live Folders Part III
on Sun, May 13 2007 2:53 PM

Yesterday, I signed in and up/downed a file, w/o any signup needed.

It only worked with signing in my live ID before visiting the folders website, though.

Deciphered.Net wrote LiveSide on Live Folders
on Mon, May 14 2007 1:36 AM

LiveSide has got three informative posts on the going-ons of one of the most anticipated Windows Live services, Windows Live Folders, the posts can be found here:

Decipher wrote re: Windows Live Folders Part III
on Mon, May 14 2007 1:44 AM

Hi,

Sorry about the trackbacks, I didn't tell it to do that, it just did it automatically. Feel free to remove them.

And thanks for the update about WLFolders, been waiting for some info for ages. Now all we need is WLCalendars. :)

Cheers,

Decipher.

Harrison Hoffman wrote re: Windows Live Folders Part III
on Mon, May 14 2007 3:42 AM

Hey Decipher,

That's absolutely fine with the trackbacks.  We like when those show up!  As for Calendar, well I think we've all been waiting for that one. :)

SSIS Junkie wrote Windows Live: Live Drive is coming!
on Mon, May 14 2007 4:41 AM

The much-vaunted storage-in-the-cloud service from Microsoft's Windows Live is soon to see the light

jamiet wrote re: Windows Live Folders Part III
on Mon, May 14 2007 5:14 AM

Los Havros,

You are neither right or wrong - but of course that's your opinion. I hapoen to agree - Windows Live Drive is a great name.

-Jamie

zlinko wrote re: Windows Live Folders Part III
on Mon, May 14 2007 8:08 PM

Wow this sound really exciting.. can't wait to see it in action.

Hopefully they will have a small client program for easy uploading.. Kind of like Flickr for photos.

Oh would be nice if they also had a way to sync up a folder on your desktop.

I CANT WAIT!

jamiet wrote re: Windows Live Folders Part III
on Mon, May 14 2007 8:18 PM

Zlinko,

Do you not think that they already have the perfect client in Windows Explorer?

-Jamie

http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/archive/tags/Windows+Live/default.aspx

paulstorm wrote re: Windows Live Folders Part III
on Tue, May 15 2007 12:03 AM

yeah...they've used Windows Explorer before...extending it with a namespace that ads like "MSN Groups" or "MSN Storage" back in the day.

It didn't always work so well...and the paltry 3MB storage limits easily curtailed usage.  ;-)

Lookin forward to this going public as well... :)

LiveSide - News blog wrote Folders and Photo Gallery announced - more to come this summer
on Wed, Jun 27 2007 5:53 AM

Windows Live Folders and Windows Live Photo Gallery are set to begin limited managed betas, according

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