Microsoft's Windows Live Folders, new rumors

Microsoft is about to launch the Windows Live Folders service (formerly known as Live Drive). When the service is launched, it will be available at http://folders.live.com (the service is currently unavailable)



After entering the service, we see in front of us the main page of the project, which displays three types of folders that we can create. We also see some folders created by default and the amount of free space that we have left.
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Windows Live Folders is a service that is easy to use. Creating folders is quite simple, as well as downloading files. Microsoft plans that this service will be used by a fairly wide audience, so basic actions should be easy to use for people far from computers.










Windows Live Folders at the same time provides more opportunities to use folders, in particular with the separation of access to them. The process is very similar to sharing access in Windows Live Spaces, the only difference is that you can assign roles to your friends - either a reader or an assistant. Just as when using the FTP service, the reader’s role gives the contact only rights to read the contents of the folder and files, while the assistant’s rights also allow uploading, editing and deleting files and folders. Creating public folders and files is also very simple.







According to the LiveSide service, the service is somewhat simple, and in fact it is really inferior in functionality to such projects as, for example, http://box.net . But the service has not yet been launched, so we will wait for what will happen at the end when at least the beta version of the service appears.