Microsoft Upgrades Live SkyDrive to 5 Gigs of Storage
Mar 12th, 2008 by MrGroove
A few months back I signed up for the Microsoft Live.com SkyDrive Beta. The first go-round they only gave away 500 Megs of storage (lame). Within just a few weeks they upped the drive sizes to 1GB and now it appears they’ve “Seen the light!!!” and upgraded all SkyDrives to 5 Gigs. Very Groovy indeed!
Now all they need to do is:
1: Make it easier to upload
2: Make it easier to access.
They should integrate the drive using a simple application similar to GMail Drive. I really like the Idea over at GetDropBox (however it’s not public yet and who knows what the cost will be??? Free??). Anyway, it looks like a few MIT grads are starting something pretty cool over there and Microsoft should take a few pointers from the simplicity. If Microsoft wants to compete they better integrate SkyDrive quickly into into the PC and MAC OS in addition to the https access.
Tags: online storage, skydrive, live.com
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Yeah, you can read up on all the updates on the SkyDrive blog here: http://skydriveteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!977F793E846B3C96!1697.entry
Very cool. I agree, it’s nice but not very easy to use from my MAC. They shouldn’t get rid of the Web access but it needs to be integrated into the OS better.