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The Best Online Storage Service - Windows SkyDrive

Submitted by Hasamba from Google Reader

Dec 03, 2008

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Windows Live SkyDrive - Your Internet Hard Drive

One needs to be extremely careful when choosing an online file storage service because you never know how long will a company survive if they offer everything for free.

There’re so many examples to prove that. AOL is shutting down XDrive, OmniDrive disappeared overnight, DivShare blocked their users in Asia as they were not contributing to the bottom line and MediaMax closed abruptly without letting users download their existing files.

Now Microsoft has introduced an upgraded version of Live SkyDrive, a free online file storage service, that looks like a perfect choice at the moment for several reasons.

1. You get 25 GB of free online storage space for your documents, photos, and all other files - the previous limit was 5 GB.

2. You have the option to download an entire folder on SkyDrive as a local zip file - huge time saver.

3. You can upload files to SkyDrive through Windows Explorer itself through Gladinet - it’s just like mapping a folder on the network drive.

4. SkyDrive is like a social network for files.

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Comments (2)

Jh2fct,

Dec 03, 2008

Wow. This looks great. It is even better than their mesh product. Looks like it has a jump on dropbox for size and ADrive for ease of use.

Desormeaux,

Dec 03, 2008

I took a look at Skydrive and loved it, from it's UI to it's ... cost. Add that to the strength of it's mothership company...hey..where else are you gonna go?