A Microsoft exec has provided more details about plans for the company's free online storage service.

Microsoft Australia technical specialist John Hodgson has provided some details of its Live Drive, which will offer free online storage, reports CNET. Hodgson said the basic Live Drive service would likely include 2 gigabytes or so of free storage, with additional capability available for a price (yet unspecified). He was speaking at a blogger's breakfast before the start of Microsoft's Tech Ed conference in Sydney.

Microsoft has been tigh-lipped about Live Drive, part of its Live drive to introduce online tools to compete with Google and Yahoo and complement the delayed Vista operating system. Via Vista, Live Drive would be directly accessed from PCs and used as might a hard drive.