SkyDrive Flawed by Windows Hegemony

I am excited by the possibilities of "Cloud Computing." Imagine, no lost data. Someone else (with organizational exactitude) backs up your files. Data always accessible. No more, "It's on my hard drive at work."

SkyDrive promises this.. but delivers incompletely.

The upload interface is primitive. N slots to browse files and upload. There IS a plug-in that allows you to browse to a folder on your local machine and select numerous files simultaneously and upload. It only works in IE (Internet Explorer) however. Windows to Windows.

This and the view inflexibility described in the previous post are the reason I continue to pay ~$100 per year to maintain my own FTP site.

That and the file size restrictions on SkyDrive. We have started capturing hour film clips for clinical training and file sizes are around 10GB!

Skydrive

I love Skydrive. This is the wonderful Windows Live filing cabinet in hyperspace.

There are some annoyances, however. Some would say you get what you pay for. Still...

Since Windows Live, presumably, has some association with Windows operating systems why is it that the directory view set on my local folders is never recognized by Windows Live?

It is 2-3 extra clicks every time I want to upload a file. I click "browse." The view consisently defaults to "list" despite the fact that all my folders are set to "details." I NEED details to find anything! Don't most of us?