Earlier this week Microsoft announced the purchase of FolderShare, a P2P file sharing and synchronization tool that allows users to publicly share their files without uploading them to a web server.

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Microsoft bought FolderShare from ByteTaxi in November 2005, and made it a part of Windows Live in March 2008. The Windows Live version had no support for discussion groups and Remote Desktop Search, ...

Problem: You've got a desktop in your office, a notebook that travels with you, and a need to access the same files and folders on both machines. Solution: Microsoft's newly updated Windows Live ...

Microsoft just sent out an email advising all Live Foldershare users that a new product will be announced in December called Windows Live Sync. It will replace Foldershare and will include the ...

One of the favorite things I like to hear from developers when some horrible and embarrassing bug manifests itself is “It’s a feature not a bug.” It’s a joke of course, but it’s unlikely Microsoft ...

Problem: You've got a desktop in your office, a notebook that travels with you, and a need to access the same files and folders on both machines. Solution: Microsoft's kick-ass FolderShare, a free ...

A few weeks ago our friend Jim dropped us a note asking what we’d recommend for synchronizing data in two locations. This was a topic we explored perhaps a year ago and Jim’s request was all we needed ...

FolderShare is a favorite sync utility among many of our readers – it works, it’s free, and it’s free. Can’t beat that, right? Well, besides laying dormant for the past two years since being bought by ...

Update 6/17/08 12:00 EDT: The FolderShare blog now reports the outage will last no longer than eight hours, down from the planned three days. Glad the madness is over. Although it's a significant ...

Austin, Texas-based ByteTaxi Inc. on Monday announced the release of FolderShare 2.5, a file sharing and synchronization service that works with Mac OS X, Windows and Linux operating systems.