Online storage has been available for many years from assorted companies. The biggest concerns with these services have been:

• Security
• Reliability/Availability
• Cost

Microsoft Corp. is testing a system called Windows Live Folders that gives computer users up to 500 megabytes of online storage for their documents, music, photos and video.

Microsoft has made an early "beta" or test version of the web-based file storage system available to 5,000 people in its latest effort to bulk up its online offerings and fend off challenges from Google Inc. The beta will be widely available later this summer.

With these services proliferating as well as rich web apps, the average user's need for powerful home computing is turning into need for high speed data instead of a more powerful computing device.

Converged PDAs and WiFi is the future.  Welcome to Mobility.

Link: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/06/28/tech-storage.html

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