Daily Archives: July 1, 2008

Sky Drives

You must be using Pen/Flash Drives for storing/sharing data.Now, you can have Free Online Storage and access it anytime, anywhere using SKYDRIVE. Windows Live Skydrive is a Free Online Storage facility offered by Microsoft at www.skydrive.live.com. The service currently offers 5GB of free storage, with a maximum upload file size of 50MB. Skydrive allows users to upload their files on the Internet and then access them from a web browser (Internet Explorer), It uses Computing Cloud storage model – a model of networked data storage where data is stored on multiple virtual servers, generally hosted by third parties) The Skydrive service utilizes Hotmail / Windows Live ID to limit access to the files the user has uploaded, allowing them to keep the files private, share with contacts, or make the files public. Publicly-shared files do not require a Windows Live ID to access.Optionally, an ActiveX tool can be installed to allow drag-and-drop uploading from Windows Explorer. Up to five files can be uploaded each time if that ActiveX tool has not been installed.

Please visit www.skydrive.live.com to know more.

[Contributed By KIPS]

Bill Gates: Looking Back, Moving Ahead

Bill Gates stepped down as chief software architect of Microsoft , and retired from his day-to-day role at Microsoft, the company he co-founded and led for most of the past 30 years.

Click on the link below to watch videos that look back to the story of Bill Gates from his early years, to founding Microsoft and what lies ahead for him and the company he started.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/videos/default.aspx?videoID=0