{"id":1630,"date":"2007-08-09T23:53:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T03:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/08\/09\/google-and-msft-need-to-try-harder\/"},"modified":"2007-08-09T23:53:31","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T03:53:31","slug":"google-and-msft-need-to-try-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/08\/09\/google-and-msft-need-to-try-harder\/","title":{"rendered":"Google and MSFT need to try harder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Storage news from both Google and Microsoft today: The former is giving you the ability to upgrade<\/a> your combined Gmail and Picasa Web Album storage, in what could be a precursor to a full-fledged Gdrive storage offering, and the latter has launched<\/a> its news Windows Live Skydrive. <\/p>\n

Both are defective, in my opinion. I realize that these are just betas, but Google is way off base with 6 gigabytes of combined Gmail and Picasa storage for $20 a year. The early-bird (or more likely mistaken) price of $1<\/a> made a lot more sense to me. Storage is virtually free, and Google knows it — and as more than one person has pointed out already, Yahoo Mail is unlimited, and Flickr.com has unlimited storage for $20.<\/p>\n

Windows Live Skydrive, meanwhile, starts with the clunky Windows Folders interface and design and 500 megabytes of storage. What the heck is that all about? I have photos that are 500 megabytes in size (okay, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but not much). Mike Arrington of TechCrunch is similarly unimpressed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Microsoft is going to have to work a little harder than that, and so is Google. Storage options like JungleDrive that are built using Amazon’s ultra-cheap S3 storage service — and others like the ones described at Read\/Write Web<\/a> — look pretty good compared to either one at the moment.<\/p>\n

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Storage news from both Google and Microsoft today: The former is giving you the ability to upgrade your combined Gmail and Picasa Web Album storage, in what could be a precursor to a full-fledged Gdrive storage offering, and the latter has launched its news Windows Live Skydrive. Both are defective, in my opinion. I realize … <\/p>\n

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