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Those who have heard of XDrive before would have remembered it.  In the days before YouSendIt, XDrive was the best free way to share files over the Internet.

Then XDrive began to charge.  Now it belongs to AOL (America On-Line).

Now Microsoft is eyeing to offer a free half-TB (Terabyte) drive on the Internet via their free "Live" space.  It'll be known as Windows Live Drive or Folders so far.

So far it's only being made available to selected beta testers, but expect news soon on the Windows Live Space about this free 500GB Internet drive.  With Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft offering Gigabytes of mail storage, the next step would be to offer free Internet storage, and it looks like Microsoft might be the first there.

Source : Yahoo News (Yeah, it's ironic isn't it?)