Microsoft's Sneak Attack On Apple: SkyDrive, Not Surface 150
New submitter curtwoodward writes "Microsoft won't become a hardware company — unless you count mice and keyboards, former Microsoftie Charlie Kindel argues — because that would mean competing with Apple on its terms. But Kindel says Microsoft may be embarking on a totally new business model by seeding its connected software services across all platforms. You saw more evidence this week with the release of SkyDrive for Android. 'For that to work, it can't just be Windows,' he says. 'As a matter of fact, to beat Apple, it has to work really well on Apple devices.'"
Hotmail for storage? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Too bad (Score:4, Informative)
Too bad Microsoft beat them all (Google Drive & iCloud) with Live Mesh back in 2008.
Re:Ohrly? (Score:4, Informative)
You don't have to have a monopoly to be sued under the Sherman Antitrust Act. Microsoft didn't have one, nor Nintendo when for "blocking competitive software from being sold" on the NES.
Re:Too bad (Score:4, Informative)
The AC referenced the wrong services, but an Apple service did pre-date Live Mesh.
The MobileMe service replaced .Mac, which replaced iTools. The first version of iDisk was part of iTools, and came out January 2000 (as noted further up the second page you linked to).
The AC inadvertently mentioned a service that preceded even iTools: i-drive [wikipedia.org] launched its online storage service in August 1999.