Yes you can get free accounts from Sky Drive or Drop Box amongst others.
You usually get about 25GB of storage space
If you have ADSL broadband with a slow upload speed then it can take ages to upload your files.
I have Sky Drive mapped as a network drive on my computer, it shows up as drive Y on my desktop and i just drag and drop files into it. The files are then sent via the internet to the Sky Drive server which is thousands of miles away.
So long as you can get onto the internet then you can access your files. It doesn't matter who your ISP is, you can use these services just like you would use an email service from google or yahoo or hotmail.
You still need to keep local copies of the files though either on your computer or on an external hard drive just in case you cant get onto the internet. Otherwise when you are offline you would not have access to the files.
Its OK for keeping backups but i wouldn't want to use it for much else just in case i cant get on the internet.
If you want to map Skydrive as a network drive then this is how you do it in Office 2010
1. Open up a Microsoft Office 2010 application, e.g. Word, Excel, etc.
2. Click the File tab
3. Click “Save %26amp; Send”
4. Click “Save to web”
5. Click “Sign In”
6. Type in your Windows Live email address and password and Click OK
7. Choose or create a new folder and then Click Save As.
8. Note: If you want your documents to be private, make sure you don’t use the Public folder
9. When the save window appears, Copy the URL location in the address bar. (note the save window may take a few seconds to appear)
10. Open up the Start Menu, Right-Click “My Computer” and Click “Map network drive”
11. Paste the previously copied URL into the Folder text box, you can also choose what drive letter you want to be associated with the skydrive
12. Check the Connect using different credentials box.
13. Click Finish
14. When prompted enter your Windows Live email address and password again
15. Click OK.
Pretty much true and the answers that you have got are OK. The question is: do people want to store their own information on their own computer as they have always done in the past or store it somewhere unknown at the far end of a very long "telephone line" that may cease to function at an inappropriate time and deny them access to their their stored information that would have been available if it was on their own hard drive?
I have yet to be convinced that it is feasible at the moment.
They can try to predict and engineer the future, but at the end of the day they must be able to make it work (and reliably) to be able to convince people to change from a satisfactory method of working to what is at the moment a "dream world" that with improving faster and more compact technology may not even be required or indeed saleable.
(If it works as well as the American spell checker on this site it is a definite non-starter)!Cloud Computing??!!!??!?!?
It really depends. If your ISP offers cloud computing or hosting companies, then yes, you can store almost anything. Basically what it is, is a server accessible via the net that you can store files on, run applications from (if capable). Microsoft's has applications loaded onto it that anyone can access and use. Other companies are doing the same for inter-company applications. Some hosting companies are doing it for simple web hosting sites. It's a giant file/storage server. The term 'cloud computing' is new but the concept and application has been around for a long time. Hope this helps.
yes and no. Most people do not use the term correctly. The "cloud" as you describe it exists for years...the real "cloud" concept is that your computer is not even in your home...the actual computing is done far far away...and then you only receive video/audio and data.
Imagine you have a wireless monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers...and that your computer is in another state... Now this computer is not even yours...it's rented and it taken care of by a company you pay. It means you don't need to take care of updates, upgrades and anything material. It also means your setup at home will cost less since it's not really a computer. Of course, if the internet connection gives up, you have access to absolutely nothing...which is the big problem with "the cloud" concept.Cloud Computing??!!!??!?!?
Yes, you basically have it nailed down.
Its a way of storing data online "In the cloud"
Google are actually in the process of making a computer that doesn't have a hard drive!!! it will only use cloud based storage!!
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