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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

More free storage space for Gmail and SkyDrive users

I can't imagine many legitimate users are running out of space on Gmail, but Google has just announced that it is making more space available. The official blog says "we are speeding up our counter and giving out more free storage". According to Googlified: The new entries indicate that the storage will be:

2912MB by October 11, 2007 midnight Google time 4.2GB by the 23rd this month 6GB by January 4th next year 42GB by the year of 2038

Microsoft has also added to the storage pile and the SkyDrive blog says "we're doubling everyone's storage to 1 GB!"

This is definitely underwhelming when you consider that Xdrive (bought by AOL) offers 5GB of free online disk storage. On the other hand, SkyDrive offers a lot more than Google's Gdrive, which must now be one of the world's best known products that doesn't actually exist. A quick Google shows:

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,160,000 for gdrive. (0.10 seconds)

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