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I was pretty interested when I first saw SkyDrive as its capacity (25G) and features seemed actually useful - just what I need to keep a shared drive between a
by zmimon 18y ago
I was pretty interested when I first saw SkyDrive as its capacity (25G) and features seemed actually useful - just what I need to keep a shared drive between a bunch of distributed computers. But mystifyingly, Microsoft do not offer any way to simply map it to a drive letter. You'll have to log on through a web browser and either do traditional file-upload type operations or install some ActiveX junk just to let you do "drag and drop" (which I don't want to do anyway - I want to script stuff from the command line).
Given how obvious mapping to a drive letter is as a feature, and how trivial one must assume it would be for Microsoft to implement, I can only assume they've deliberately crippled it for strategic reasons.
Assuming it's not just a delusional fantasy I hope GDrive gets this right, because this is a service I do want ...
- gaius 18y agoBack in the day (mid 90s), you could actually mount ftp.microsoft.com on your desktop, e.g. c:\> net use m: \\ftp.microsoft.com\pub That would have been a security nightmare tho' (SMB over the Internet, WTF) and they stopped it, so I'm guessing they still haven't quite figured it out.
- bmelton 18y agoI suspect the real discriminator in that is the inability to serve adds to an SMB share.