Comments on: Windows "Live" (Now Dead) Foldershare Has an Architectural Weakness

By: Technology Transfer Services

Technology Transfer Services — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:30:12 +0000

Why are so surprised by Microsoft and their bugged software? It is something common and I got used to the bugs that exist in Microsoft software. With time you learn that by doing a manual personalized setup you can improve their software considerably but of course the license does not allow you to modify their software… Who cares?

By: andy

andy — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:39:14 +0000

Its clear that ms does not want to support foldershare at all. The last few big time outages (especially last year) were indicative of a total failure to carry the MS reputation (good or bad, depending how you look at it)into this product.

I think when foldershare was a paid service, the web login authentication was a way to make sure you had a licence and had paid. Now, its free since the last 4? years, so the web authenticate does not matter or does it?

I also noticed that the link to the foldershare live newsgroup has disappeared from foldershare.com frontpage even though it took them years to create a notifier page and it was only up since the disaster of november last year when the MS lack-of-tech-support team started become verbose.
Obviously, it was too upsetting for them to be reminded again of their failures.
Google can run 24/7 if I am not mistaken so foldershare should manage good uptime as well.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:48:36 +0000

What are some of the alternatives to Foldershare?

I have been using it for quite a while and besides from the occasional outage quite happy. I would definitely pay for the service if it meant less outages.

By: Chris Selland

Chris Selland — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:59:36 +0000

I gave up on Foldershare a long time ago. It was a great service when the company was independent and well worth $50/year. Microsoft bought the copmany, made it ‘free’, and killed the service – proving that you get what you pay for. I’d rather pay for a service that works than depend on a ‘free’ service that doesn’t. Very sad.