Comments on: Microsoft buys Foldershare, will Mac client be roadkill?

By: Bear

Bear — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:18:41 +0000

I’ve encountered this Mac client issue too. I’m trying to get discussion going at

http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3367363

If you have any ideas, please don’t hesitate to offer them. This is really messing with my life.

By: PJ

PJ — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:36:27 +0000

At time of writing, Mac clients have been unable to connect to Foldershare for the past 24 hours. PC clients are fine. Discuss.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:39:37 +0000

It's pretty easy to solve microsoft monopoly problems.

Get a mac.

By: Bill J

Bill J — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:11:58 +0000

If Folder share was sold to microsoft and Google has desktop 3 (for Free!!!) as their file sharing solution all the midgets (such as Beinsync) are bound to be out of the market by summer.

By: Bryant Willis

Bryant Willis — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:04:36 +0000

I’m a longtime user of foldershare and I have to say I’m very disappointed in foldershare selling out to Microsoft.

Foldershare has already changed.. with their new upgrade it eliminates 256-bit AES encryption, places a 10,000 file limitation and it no longer sends just the changed part of files… —- so its slower and less effective for me.

Better yet they are about as responsive as Microsoft for tech support now… I use to get to exchange emails with Michael… I don’t know where he is now.

Bryant

By: Sanjay’s Blog » Blog Archive » Unlike Me, Microsoft Loves Google

Sanjay’s Blog » Blog Archive » Unlike Me, Microsoft Loves Google — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:15:28 +0000

[...] Okay, so the title may be a little misleading but I thought this was funny and sad. I just read Walter Mossberg’s column (subscription required) in the Wall Street Journal which talks about FolderShare which Microsoft recently acquired. In a nutshell, FolderShare is a peer-to-peer application that allows you to share files securely with a group of folks on either Windows machines or Macs. So I thought I would check it out since it may help me manage a bunch of files that I need for a team project at school. I installed it and started to go through setting it up when I see this page (picture touched up to protect my account info but otherwise this is an accurate reflection of this page): [...]

By: Design Desires - Fuzzy’s Rant » 5 Things that piss me off

Design Desires - Fuzzy’s Rant » 5 Things that piss me off — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 16:54:25 +0000

[...] Said tripe conspiracy theory that MS is a big bad money loving whore (ain’t we all?) is here (http://gigaom.com/2005/11/03/microsoft-buys-foldershare-will-mac-client-be-roadkill/) [...]

By: Tom Green

Tom Green — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:02:21 +0000

You might want to look at this from the FolderShare site:

What are the system requirements for FolderShare?

Operating System:
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003

By: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog — » Yipee…FolderShare for OS-X is back

Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:17:08 +0000

[...] Foldershare for OS-X is back for download! Yipee! Michael kept his promise … what a gentleman! [...]

By: John C. Welch

John C. Welch — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 16:56:47 +0000

Suresh, that brings up an interesting point…

Why is Groove a Windows – only tool?

By: Suresh Kumar

Suresh Kumar — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:48:56 +0000

well groove is probably designed for enterprises.. (beside there is STILL no mac support for Groove on Mac)…

i suspect this is meant to be a light weight solution to bundle with Messenger…

future releases of Windows (post Vista).. will have Groove plumbing built in…

then they wont need foldershare…

By: Brandon Paddock

Brandon Paddock — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:33:17 +0000

“Interesting, given that MS already owns Groove, which also has folder sync capability. Why would they need this company? MAC compatibility? What does it mean for Groove?”

Well, there’s a significant feature of FolderShare that people seem to be ignoring.

By: Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger » Om wonders if Microsoft will kill Mac client of FolderShare

Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:02:31 +0000

[...] Om Malik wonders if Microsoft will kill the Mac client of FolderShare. Hey, Om, if we do something stupid like that I’m gonna throw a chair. [...]

By: Foldershare, by Microsoft: Now Free -- Alec Saunders .LOG

Foldershare, by Microsoft: Now Free -- Alec Saunders .LOG — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:57:35 +0000

[...] Microsoft has acquired one of my favorite utility companies: Foldershare. It’s to be integrated with the Windows Live offering, but much to Om Malik’s relief, they won’t be abandoning the Mac client. They’ve waived the $99/year service fee, as well. [...]

By: Shobraj

Shobraj — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:26:20 +0000

rsync has been available for years in *nix platforms.

By: blogging.vc » Blog Archive » FolderShare gets Acquired

blogging.vc » Blog Archive » FolderShare gets Acquired — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:51:50 +0000

[...] After a week of meetings in San Francisco, I am catching up with the news on my way back to Germany. Om Malik has posted that FolderShare, one of my favorite utilities, had been acquired by Microsoft. FolderShare allows for automatic and effortless synching of folders between several machines, whether they run Windows or Mac. There are a few similar apps like BeInSync, but I have always been most happy with FolderShare. I had talked to its CEO Michael Merhej a long time ago when he had just started the company down in Texas. Congratulations Michael, and keep up the good work. I just hope the Mac version will stay around…. See the company’s press release for more info. [...]