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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Microsoft announces free online disk space as SkyDrive

The Microsoft naming team must be having some impact, because the online storage system previously known as Windows Live Folders is now being rolled out as SkyDrive.

There's an announcement at the SkyDrive team's blog on Spaces and a video demo at the Windows Experience blog.

Lucky us: it's being rolled out in the US, the UK and India. (Note: it's still in beta.)

Drag-and-drop file transfer means it is easy to use, but users only get 500MB of disk space. This puts it in the quite-nice-to-have-as-it's-free category. It's not likely to attract customers away from venerable services such as Xdrive (5GB free).

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