FolderShare now free for all

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FolderShare now free for all

by Marc Perton Nov 12th 2005

Here's some great news if you're a fan or user of FolderShare: as part of the company's recent acquisition by Microsoft, FolderShare will now be offering all of its services for free. Customers who've pre-paid for a plan will receive a pro-rata refund. According to the company, they are "discontinuing the paid Foldershare services and offering a free version of the service instead, which has many of the capabilities of the previous paid versions." Of course, this may not be great news for customers who paid for FolderShare's $100 per year professional service, since the level of the new free service may well be more akin to the previous $50 per year personal version. Also unclear is whether Microsoft will try to bring in revenue from FolderShare through advertising or other streams. For now, however, this is your chance to get a great service that was previously $50 a year for absolutely nothing.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Hipoteca said 7:25AM on 11-13-2005

That�s great. I�m fan of Foldershare

CoreBurn said 7:13PM on 11-16-2005

I was checking this out today and suddenly realized what a cool and very useful piece of software this is. I went to the section for accessing your files via the web, and thought being able to browse any of my drives on my remote machines was great, but then I tried a search since I had Google's Desktop Search on my machines and it seemed to work great! In the results you get a nice page with results from all or a single machine. The setup and use is simple, and to me it seems to work great. I can think of many uses for this. Oh and best of all, it's free!

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