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Microsoft Live Drive may launch before GDrive

Microsoft is building an online storage service, code named Live Drive, says Ray Ozzie in an interview with Fortune:

Microsoft is planning to use its server farms to offer anyone huge amounts of online storage of digital data. It even has a name for that future service: Live Drive. With Live Drive, all your information - movies, music, tax information, a high-definition videoconference you had with your grandmother, whatever - could be accessible from anywhere, on any device.

This lads and lassies, means your data will be stored on an online server.
It is something that already happens in smaller networks (and sometimes larger)
But can you imagine storing all your usable data on a server somewhere?
Your private conversation with your mother, or your lover

I had a nice conversation on the matter with Smetty last night. And off course she's right: it is bound to happen.
Yet it is scary.
Privacy-wise, and also content-wise: imagine the servers go down for let's say 1 hour: no way to access your data anymore.
Stuff to think about...

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