Microsoft and Sandisk are teaming up to make USB Flash Drives far more useful. Though we've seen some usefulness with "U3" technology enabled flash devices, which add some intelligent features to flash storage device, this goes a significant step further. Sandisk will be abandoning U3 in favor of this far more ambitious, and potentially more useful paradigm. InformationWeek reports...

Microsoft is teaming up with peripherals manufacturer SanDisk in an effort to develop smart USB devices that will allow users to carry their complete personal computing environment on a device as small as a thumb drive, Microsoft announced Friday.

Under the plan, Microsoft will develop software that will let users store their applications and data on small, Flash memory-based devices that connect to their computers' Universal Serial Bus. SanDisk will design and manufacture compatible hardware.

The first products from the collaboration will be available in mid-2008, Microsoft said.

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