02 March 2008

Largest ever-online storage

Are you crafting a plan to buy portable hard drives and large capacity memory sticks? It would be wise to drop your plan. Microsoft is offering free personal and secure storage on the web, which will reach a massive 5 gigabytes to users, registered for its Windows Live services. Users of its Hotmail e-mail service can gain access to this virtual hard drive on the web using the same name and password. We can upload and store our files in three folders namely personal, share with friends and share with the world. In personal zone only the authorized user can have the access rights. ‘Share with friends’ will be open to the designated friends who are also registered Windows Live users. ‘Share with the world’ as its name suggest it enables us to place the files that are open to the public for their perusal.

It offers a munificent limit of 50 MB for any one file. Personal store will be particularly useful to keep copies of e-tickets, scans of important documents such as degree certificates and birth or marriage records. We can retrieve these records easily in case of loss of original ones. Important question that would be raised immediately would be regarding the security aspects. The level of security is similar to that of online banking. All files transfers are protected using the secure socket layer.

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