Microsoft seems to be all set to jump on the Mobileme brigade, as a page recently went live on its site which describes a similar service titled MyPhone. The service was previously referred to as Skybox, and the site Getskybox.com redirects to a page on Microsoft's site. There has been no official word from Microsoft about the service yet.

This service seems to directly rival the MobileMe offering of Apple, in more ways than just the name. Going by the information provided on the site, it allows users to synchronize their mail, calendars, appointments, pictures and documents with the web. As "my" and the list of features suggests, it is a service targeted towards end users, it will not be of much interest to corporates. Although it has a slight overlap in functionality with its own offering ActiveSync, and mobile collaboration software Hyperoffice, the latter are more suited to businesses because they are designed to work in group and team environments, and allow sharing of information, and also allow the ability to synchronize with corporate messaging tools like Outlook. The restrictive 200 MB storage limit is another factor that makes it a purely end user tool.

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