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The sad thing about Dropbox is that my free Dropbox account has less space than my free gmail account. If I found a service which was as reliable and provided at least 7 gigs of free space, I would jump ship w/o thinking twice.
I would say Windows Mesh is more a competitor than SkyDrive because its folder sync and online storage capacity. Neither are getting anywhere near as much traction as DropBox, but it would do MS good to merge these services asap. Threat? No. An perfectly viable alternative? Certainly.
That's exactly what they've done. Mesh became the SkyDrive desktop app. It lets you get remote access to your PC (either files or remote desktop), as well as sync with the cloud.
Mesh has a nice interface with baked in sync scenarios such as browser favorites and office settings. The quick and easy remote desktop is a good touch as well.
With a 25GB/user limit less than 1% of the users need more than 7GB of storage. That sounds like an argument in favor of keeping the 25GB cap. Does Microsoft not trust their own data? Are they really allocating 25GB/user currently, do they need the revenue from the 1% that will now have to pay or what is going on?
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>I've noticed an uptick of the "poor maligned Microsoft" angle lately. It is a boorish tactic to neuter counterpoints (essentially the yang of the "fanboy!" rallying cry). There are a bunch of MS haters around, even on HN. For example, Microsoft watcher and insider Paul Thurrott's site http://winsupersite.com is hellbanned on HN(banned from even appearing on the new page), most probably due to excessive flagging from…
I've flagged Gruber in the past for posts that were contentless flamebait (in my opinion, of course). I don't know what the story is with Thurrott. Because of the banning, it sounds like a special case that the mods of HN have ultimately decided on, not just the users. So I'm ok with believing that it's not just a story about factions and groupthink.
I really don't see anything remotely ban worthy on Winsupersite, do you?
The sad thing about Dropbox is that my free Dropbox account has less space than my free gmail account. If I found a service which was as reliable and provided at least 7 gigs of free space, I would jump ship w/o thinking twice.
Stop being selfish and refer more people :). I'm up to 16GB free on mine.
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> "Dropbox integration would be a fantastic selling point for Office; SkyDrive integration is not" I think you may be discounting businesses that actually purchase a lot of Office licences. SkyDrive can be a way of providing file-syncing and sharing that's 'good-enough' for their employees/company. (edit: by which I mean it's a valid strategy to try and protect your turf). I can see an analogy here with Sharepoint. M…
Ok, that is a good point - there's certainly some instances I'm not familiar with such as the one you cite. I'm still dubious, especially due to the market penetration Dropbox has, but I guess we'll see :)
Dropbox is familiar to us and the circles we are in, but that doesn't mean it has any traction at all among the middle-America soccer moms using MS Word to make flyers for little league or the pet shelter. (The recent photo sync update should help with this.)
Techies typically "misunderestimate" the traction of entrenched tools among normals and the value of building add-ons for those entrenched tools.
Microsoft has an app for Windows and for Mac OS X that integrates SkyDrive with the local OS So, no Linux? Then SkyDrive is no threat to Dropbox, at least to my household.
When I last tried, any client can access SkyDrive over WebDAV using http://d.docs.live.net/{cID} (cID can be found in most SkyDrive URLs).