UPDATE .. (Oct 2025): [Actually, this post had been published in 2007 before I downloaded it, & re-publish it again, in 2009 .. & as you can see, it could be considered as one of the early insights into "Cloud Computing & Storage"]..  I’m not sure if someone has suggested this before… A few years back Microsoft launched among their online services the “Microsoft virtual machine” to their customers. That service got a considera…...