This service was designed to take the place of physical delivery of software in the forms of CDs and DVDs. A copy of the application was placed in the customer's digital locker so it could be downloaded again in the future if needed, such as when the customer upgraded to a new computer and wanted to restore his purchased applications.
At that time, it enabled customers to download purchased applications from the company's servers. The term “digital locker” was first used by Microsoft® as a proprietary name for part of its Windows Marketplace service. This avoids the problem of localization, where files are stored at home or an office on a single physical hard drive that is only accessible by logging into the computer directly.Ĭloud computing is the movement towards browser-based applications and off-site file storage. Centralization of the files on a remote server that is accessible over the Internet enables the user to make use of those files on any computer or device with Web access. The servers are owned and managed by a company that offers hard drive space to the public to store files for a fee. A digital locker is file storage space on servers that are accessible over the Internet.
