New Microsoft Viral Teaser Site
on 12.24.06, 03:51pm in microsoft • comments (2)
[Charlie Kindel] Noticed a banner ad on cnet.com that clicked through to this site www.stopdigitalamnesia.com (Stop Digital Amnesia). Hmmm… Yet another Microsoft viral-teaser site. Something big will be announced on 1/7 at CES…
I personally liked the text in the disclaimer ticket on the right hand side. Should be interesting to see what’s going to be announced at CES on the 7th.
January may turn into an expensive month since MacWorld is on the 9th (fingers crossed for the Macbook Thin).
Timmy (December 25, 2006 @ 8:48 am)
Digital storage in the home should be meant for sharing content across multiple devices you have in your home. For example, you rip your movies, put them on the central store and then stream Superman Returns to your XBOX 360, to your iMac or to your Windows Media Center SP2 PC. It should not be where you backup all of your data. You should think of it as a personal cache.
What needs to happen is that storage needs to move to the cloud. Whatever PC you are on, automatic replication should occur to your Google, Yahoo, Live, .Mac, XDrive store. The cost should be cheap and easy. In the Goolge and Yahoo case, probably free. But this is the future. Having a RAID array in your house for backup is ridiculous. It is simply there as a cache of your life. Your drive should seemlessly synchronize itself (rsync) to the cloud.
Yet another hard disk in the home is simply stupid and a me-too product of 5 years ago. If this is the BIG CES announcement, it will be yet another snoozer. It reminds me of MIRA - Microsoft will kill it in no time when nobody buys the product.
Build a hard disk that auto-replicates/syncs your data to a free 1 TB storage on LIVE.com. Then give me a web-based interface to the drive and to the service (it should look and feel the same). Then, let me “share” memories with friends and family. I want to click on these three photos (out of 100) and say “share to mom”. Then, mom goes to http://www.live.com/jimmy and she logs in and then she can see the photos that I shared just with her. Don’t force ActiveDirectory or bizarre Windows ACLs on the data. Just store my stuff and replicate my stuff. Then let me set sharing permissions on my stuff.
Jimmy (January 2, 2007 @ 10:18 am)
I think Timmy is right on the money. However, I think he’s off the mark if he thinks my mom is ever going to ‘log in’. Microsoft should produce the USB ‘passport’ which I can plug into any h/ware device to give it all the necessary ‘logon’ informaiton it needs. That would make it really simple, as well as provide that level of PHYSICAL security that we all need.