Windows Live Drive to Drop in January 2007?

At CES 2007, Microsoft is expected to reveal the "All together now" solution advertised on the CES 2007 guide book. As the Microsoft advertisement fails to point to a specific product, leaving room for interpretations, two alternative speculations have taken center stage.

According to various sources, the "All together now" product could be either Windows Live Drive or Windows Server Home. The only actual clue delivered by the Redmond Company is the slogan "Announcing a new way to share, protect, and store what matters most."

In this context, Windows Live Drive is a viable possibility. Windows Live Drive is a Microsoft project developed under the Live brand umbrella that will deliver online virtual hard drives to users. "Microsoft is planning to use its server farms to offer anyone huge amounts of online storage of digital data," stated Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, in the spring of 2006. "With Live Drive, all your information-movies, music, tax information, a high-definition videoconference you had with your grandmother, whatever-could be accessible from anywhere, on any device."

Back in August, John Hodgson, a technical specialist with Microsoft Australia, had informed that Microsoft planed to offer 2GB of online storage space to all Windows Vista users, and in this regard, the Windows Live online storage service will be mapped directly from the operating system.

A second possibility is that Microsoft will make available the Windows Server Home. The Windows Server Home will be a retail Longhorn-based home server. Designed for deployment in household environments, the Windows Server Home will serve media content and centralize machine management via a home network.

I don't know about you, but my money is on the Windows Live Drive.