I'm just wondering...you can't really get much for free these days - not without a catch, anyway. So how can MS afford to give people 25 GB of free SkyDrive storage? That's a LOT of free storage! What's in it for them? If the uploaded files are encrypted, then there shouldn't be any way MS could de-encrypt them, right? So what benefit do they derive from being so generous?
Hi CosmicJest!
My understanding is that if you use SkyDrive (I do...) that means simply you are with them right now - right here, which is their plan, not just for now for the future. What is in the future? who knows? Microsoft's brains behind it do know. I believe it's part of the plan to get users attached to them first then make them their Cloud users, because we have been with them, we know them, we trust them...
That's my view... Although I might be completley wrong...
Hi CosmicJest!
My understanding is that if you use SkyDrive (I do...) that means simply you are with them right now - right here, which is their plan, not just for now for the future. What is in the future? who knows? Microsoft's brains behind it do know. I believe it's part of the plan to get users attached to them first then make them their Cloud users, because we have been with them, we know them, we trust them...
That's my view... Although I might be completley wrong...
Pretty much just this exactly. It is to attract people in and get them used to using it before the unveil the next stage
Why is it free - Because others provide it free
Why is it 25GB - Because it's more than the others and storage is cheap at the levels involved
why provide it - to give users a nice warm glow
in other words it's cheap PR marketing ... Microsoft is a business good PR is priceless
Also you'll probably see it heavily integrated with Windows 8, which allows Microsoft to provide a cheap / free bullet point to purchase and use their OS, and it also allows them to tout their cloud storage and performance (which, admittedly, is pretty good already). As previously posted, it's good and cheap marketing, and it seems to work pretty well too at that.
Thanks everybody! :)
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