Y! BriefCase closing on March 30, 2009

I am pretty sure most of you would have used Yahoo Briefcase, a little utility offering 30 MB of space, which has now got shadowed by giants who offer hundreds/thousands of mega-bytes of space online. But, it always had some loyal customers once upon a time. I remember using it regularly during my college days, when I uploaded all those stuff I considered precious and worthwhile taking backup, into y! briefcase. Those were the times much before the web-giant Google shot into limelight (with its products - gmail, gcalender, gdocuments into the market space).

Today Yahoo, amidst all its business plans and survival measures, decides to close this down forever. Two years ago, it also shutdown Yahoo Photos giving its existing users the liberty to move their pictures into Flickr or any of the other services like Photobucket, Snapfish, Kodak Gallery or Shutterfly. Clearly, there's no such migration possible for y! briefcase and the users are expected to download their content before the close-down date.

I hope, I believe, fortunately or unfortunately, knowingly or unknowingly ;) , Yahoo manages to retain its most reputed possession that identifies the company largely - its mail service!

P.S> My first email account was in Y!, therefore sentiments attached :(