Microsoft to launch a GDrive competitor
According to Microsoft Watch, Microsoft is getting ready to launch 
a “Live Drive”, a virtual hard drive that will allow users to store personal data online.
It would be a direct competitor to Google’s planned GDrive , which will offer users unlimited online storage. Both options leave .Mac’s iDisk looking like the 360KB floppy disk of the Internet age.
You can already make a limited storage space for yourself using your Gmail account and a tool like gDrive but it has nothing like the rumoured size of Google’s own GDrive.
Ray Ozzie, CTO at Microsoft, let slip (strategically leaked?) Microsoft’s verison in an interview with Fortune Magazine.
The article is interesting. It describes how Bill Gates is looking to Ozzie to revive Microsoft’s fortunes and reputation by jumping on the Web 2.0 bandwagon. In part it says,
Gates and Ballmer … want to put Microsoft back out in front of the industry, where it has been for most of its history. Gates says he is fed up with Google being seen as the “thought leader” of the Internet Age.
Ballmer says, “We have the birthright to lead the pack. We’ve got more technology. We’ve got more experience.”
Put simply, Ozzie’s assignment is to Webify everything: To intertwine Microsoft’s entire product line - software for consumers, software for businesses, Xboxes, all of it - with the vast and ever-growing power of the Net.
“Everything we do should have a presence on the Web,” Ozzie says.
[Via Slashdot ]
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