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Re:Shutting down Ubuntu One file services by skc on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @11:08AM (#7516028)
This is the first I'm hearing of Skydrive being considered a failure.

What is that based on exactly?

Re:Shutting down Ubuntu One file services by etfb on Thursday April 03, 2014 @05:22AM (#7521745)
Hearts and minds. It's a free product and installed and activated (and pushed!) by default in Win8, as far as I can see, so you can't really measure success, but I would estimate one in three non-tech-savvy people I talk to understand what Dropbox is, and maybe one in fifty understand what SkyDrive is. So I'd call it a failure without too much hesitation.
Re:Shutting down Ubuntu One file services by dnissley on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @02:18PM (#7517749)
I think he was saying that it, too, was a bandwagon feature. Not that it was a failure.