Yahoo! Briefcase is finally being put out of its misery

So as we await the fanfare that will result from the launch of the G-Drive, Yahoo closes their long abandoned trailblazer. I remember when this was launched; for a while there was a download offered that allowed you to integrate briefcase with Windows Explorer, offering a Y-Drive. Of course it wasn't updated to work beyond Windows 98 which is probably when the rot set in.

Back then their toolbar offered a unique online bookmarks service. Their (equally abandoned) notepad service allowed you to compose text documents online, offering the nearest to an online word processor available.

Google has since taken these concepts and done wonderful things with them. I'd like to think that Yahoo has been left to think what might have been, but closure of Briefcase suggests they still haven't rediscovered the innovate building blocks they abandoned ten years ago.

It's quite sad really; but well done Google for filling the vacuum.

This is old news!! Dugg 4 hrs ago: http://digg.com/tech_news/Yahoo_drops_its_Briefcase

As lame as it was, it was still a very nice, no frills solution to having a few needed files handy when you were remoting into someone's PC doing support. As opposed to dancing on it's grave, how about some suggestions that allow you to store files without doing it through e-mail?

Wow! Seeing this item made me decide to log on to Briefcase, and by golly, I had pics I'd put up there five years ago, and promptly forgot about.

Thanks!

You make reference to other "gigabytes of free storage space," providers
but at least the 1TB one oosah is no longer providing:
"Uploading has been disabled to Oosah."
i think they run out of Disk-space or something, they had a very short life time anyhow

Crap. I used Briefcase all the time (before I got my flash drive) because unlike other online storage services, Yahoo didn't make you sift through three metric tons of crap and advertisements to find out how to download your files. Some places even make you wait 60 seconds for a countdown timer to let you download YOUR files.

And I can't imagine you would ever really need to upload those 200 GBs of pirated movies so you can access them at work! 30Mb is fine for pictures, presentations and some music.

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I still can't figure out what "yahoo briefcase" is, so am still in the dark as to whether or not I will be affected by its existence one way or another. I can't download anything from their website. It just freezes up at forty four percent.