Future of Skydrive & “Live Flix” ?!
Just a quick recap of tweets tweeted on Monday, August 31 regarding this:
“Flix” is not intended to compete with YouTube. Will offer granular sharing controls a la WL Photos. Meant for family-sharing etc. Will be powered by Silverlight, and surfaced under the Windows Live Photos brand, WLMM plugin coming soon.
CSP is @Skydrive for all this of course and Skydrive is now managed over a Azure fabric controller. The roadmap right now apparently, is not to officially increase the 25GB cap, but up the per-file upload limit to 100 MB over the web & WLPG, 500 MB through WLMM, while LOE will use delta-sync. When the average usage level goes above a certain percentage of 25GB, Microsoft will bump it up to 50 GB, which is already provisioned but not officially marketed. And yes, ever-increasing storage is free.
You know, this whole thing is a good preview of what is to come from Microsoft in the long-term. If I were you, I’d read some of Mary Jo Foley’s more obscure, less product-specific write-ups. That woman, more than anyone else, has got the right ideas and guesses about Microsoft’s future. The side-effect is she has trouble with nearer objects.
