Let the Web be your warehouse

Microsoft this week acknowledged it was working on dubbed Live Drive.

The new service would allow consumers to store diverse data from movies and music to tax records and documents, accessible via the Internet. The move mirrors a project Google has reportedly been working on, called "GDrive," reports of which .

The two companies have increasingly been stepping on each other's turf, and this move is just the latest in a line of competitive offerings. Whether consumers will trust either company with all of their personal data is, of course, another matter.

Blog community response:

"Amazon also has an S3 web services for data storage. Yahoo has a similar product called Yahoo! Briefcase which offers limited storage and accessible only via the web browser. With Google and Microsoft entering the virtual hard drive market, it won't be surprising if we soon hear an announcement of Yahoo! Drive."
--Digital Inspiration

"Microsoft and Google have been on a collision course for awhile now, but I wouldn't be surprised if Google continues to dominate in the consumer space while Microsoft does better selling online software to businesses."
--B2Day

"Perhaps you still think XP when you hear Windows, but the future probably belongs to Windows Live. And all your data are belong to us!"
--In search of 42