Microsoft has confirmed further details of its forthcoming Live Drive service, which will offer free online storage which can be mapped directly from PCs running the forthcoming Vista operating system.

Source: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Microsoft_confirms_Live_Drive_plans/0,2000061733,39267189,00.htm
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Time for an announcement from Google. And I like the feature to map my Live Drive to my Windows

You can do that with Box.net [ 1 GB free].
http://techie-buzz.com/technology-buzz/mount-box.net-account-in-windows-explorer.html

>such storage can't easily be mapped to an existing PC.

i think google gdrive will surely have an option to map with an exsiting pc

No doubt Google will do something similar, so Live Drive will only work for Vista ?

Microsoft is great at announcing. I suppose it's meant to suppress competition developing in the same niche. But I don't think it works anymore in 2006.