Yahoo drops its Briefcase
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The service will be shut down on March 30, the company said on Wednesday. Yahoo is warning users to retrieve or delete their documents before that date.
Briefcase, which offered 30MB of online storage, was launched almost 10 years ago. However, "usage has been significantly declining over the years, as users outgrew the need for Yahoo Briefcase and turned to offerings with much more storage and enhanced sharing capabilities", the company said in a statement.
There are now many alternative online storage services to Briefcase. Notable rivals include Microsoft's SkyDrive, a Windows Live service that offers 25GB of free storage.
There are also signs that Google may be preparing a free online storage product called GDrive. Recent reports have pointed to a reference to GDrive in an online, recently updated file associated with its Google Pack bundle of free software, which includes Chrome and Picasa. The file text says that GDrive "provides reliable storage for all of your files, including photos, music and documents [and] allows you to access your files from anywhere, any time and from any device — be it from your desktop, web browser or mobile phone".
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Less and less...
Where Microsoft and Google keep adding services that keep me coming back and entrenching me more, Yahoo keeps slowly dropping any of the reasons I used them in the first place. To the point where now - my Yahoo address is only used as my spamcatcher for when websites make me register to use them. Thanks for the memories, Yahoo. You've made yourself insignificant in my online life after all these years.
jaskelling30th Jan 2009 -
WOW GDrive!! Wait...what??
WOW GDrive, so I can put my files on the web??? What else can i also sent electonic mails to people on the internet these days?? Wait, its 2009, no way!!!
micks_tricks30th Jan 2009 -
The interwebs just keep on keepin' on!
Soon you will be able to send messages in real time and people will respond to you, often in the same week. I'm hearing from my sources that someday music and videos will be available. Plus you will be able to affix a camera and microphone to your computer and transmit over the interwebs on something called MyTubes. That good ol' 14.4 modem is ready and waiting....
R.I.P. Yahoo
ThePrairiePrankster30th Jan 2009 -
Here is what happened
A keen developer or marketer at Yahoo said "Hey, our file storage system looks too 90's we should revamp it as a Web 2.0 application"
And the executive in the meeting said: Are we still running this?
Yes, I found that it's running in that dusty server under my desk that no one knew what it was for.
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I know this was what happened because the briefcase application hasn't been updated for as long as I've been using it.
rarsa30th Jan 2009 -
RE: Yahoo drops its Briefcase
I agree with you completely. Yahoo! has rolled out dozens of products over the years, only to let them slowly (or sometimes, quickly) die. I used to use the maximum six My Yahoo! pages, now have none ... long ago canceled Yahoo! Finance's real-time quotes service ... Canceled my Mail Plus subscription as Yahoo!'s spam filters eradicated increasing volumes of my mail ... canceled my Launchcast service before they ruined the product. There is little left that Yahoo! does right.
bored2tears30th Jan 2009 -
Predictable Decline
Yahoo is also responsible for the destruction of my old favourite AltaVista. Not only has it recently lost the Audio and Video search features, but they have noticably become less useful following the sale of the engine to Yahoo. I think they only bought AV in order to get a hold of Babelfish, which seems to be in the same place now as it was years ago, only with new, ugly decorations.
Yahoo is becoming the equivalent in information services to EA and entertainment.
marty0112nd Feb 2009
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