Comments on: Microsoft ties SkyDrive tightly to Windows 8 http://gigaom.com/2012/02/21/microsoft-ties-skydrive-tightly-to-windows-8/ Wed, 22 May 2013 23:37:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sheila http://gigaom.com/2012/02/21/microsoft-ties-skydrive-tightly-to-windows-8/#comment-811832 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:47:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=487263#comment-811832 Windows 8 is going to combine Skydrive and Live Mesh.

]]> By: Barb Darrow http://gigaom.com/2012/02/21/microsoft-ties-skydrive-tightly-to-windows-8/#comment-811807 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:27:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=487263#comment-811807 Thanks @Paul. I should have pointed out in the story that Live Mesh is the msft file sync app that lets users sync docs and files between devices while SkyDrive itself is online storage. And yes, Dropbox does both.

]]> By: Paul http://gigaom.com/2012/02/21/microsoft-ties-skydrive-tightly-to-windows-8/#comment-811788 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:22:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=487263#comment-811788 Compare SkyDrive and LiveMesh with DropBox and you’ll see a clear case for Microsoft’s continued decline.

SkyDrive and LiveMesh, combined, are similar to DropBox. But because MS hasn’t really integrated them, users who want to use LiveMesh to sync their data, LiveMesh can use only 5GB of SkyDdrive’s 25GB as backup capacity, and there is NO UPGRADE PATH. That’s right, Microsoft does not even give you an option for increasing this capacity, even while DropBox grows to a multi-billion-dollar valuation.

It must make sense to someone inside of Microsoft. Probably for some political reason that both shareholders and customers would find ridiculous. But the company now forces the users most likely to pay for LiveMesh to move to DropBox.

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