Comments on: Microsoft Needs Integrated Online Storage http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/microsoft-needs-integrated-online-storage Almost two steps ahead of technology Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:13:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Meller http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/microsoft-needs-integrated-online-storage/comment-page-1#comment-6000 Chris Meller Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:32:29 +0000 http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/microsoft-needs-integrated-online-storage/#comment-6000 Well that just wouldn't work at all... See, the whole web-based email storage thing is total crap. No one is going to use 5 GB of storage for their email, particularly with the types of file-size restrictions they put in place. It's like overselling on hosting: you promise people x, but you know that y% of them aren't going to use it, so you can fit z% more users on your existing infrastructure. If they let you use that same 5 GB of storage for other files through SkyDrive, it would totally eat their infrastructure because people *would* use it there. While they can throw around big numbers that sound impressive for webmail without any fear of having to beef up their infrastructure, the same isn't true for online file storage. Well that just wouldn’t work at all… See, the whole web-based email storage thing is total crap. No one is going to use 5 GB of storage for their email, particularly with the types of file-size restrictions they put in place. It’s like overselling on hosting: you promise people x, but you know that y% of them aren’t going to use it, so you can fit z% more users on your existing infrastructure.

If they let you use that same 5 GB of storage for other files through SkyDrive, it would totally eat their infrastructure because people *would* use it there.

While they can throw around big numbers that sound impressive for webmail without any fear of having to beef up their infrastructure, the same isn’t true for online file storage.

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