title: Why did Microsoft choose a RESTful API over WebDAV for BLOB storage?
body: <p>Microsoft's new <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc305108.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Windows Live Application Based Storage API</a> is a RESTful API.</p>
  
  <p>More info is <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc305108.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>.</p>
  
  <p>Why did they choose not to support WebDAV?</p>