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Old May 13, 2008 | 5:53 pm
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Originally Posted by RobertS975
So maybe a dumb question, but how does one have any idea whether these services will be around two, five or ten years from now?
One doesn't. But when it comes to these things I don't rely on them for mission critical files.

Microsoft owns one or two of these services so presumably they'll be around for a while... although they may just as easily discontinue a service. I guess your best bet is to monitor which one is the most popular and hop on that bandwagon, kindof like Gmail.

However with all that is going on in technology, all of this may be a moot point in 10 years anyway. I would be surprised if this type of filesharing, online backup and versioning is not built into the operating system you'll be using in 10 years.
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