The cloud storage race – what can SkyDrive improve on?

Last week had been a busy week in the consumer cloud storage space. First we had Microsoft significantly upgrading their SkyDrive service, adding paid storage plans and desktop sync apps. Then we had Google ... Read more »

SkyDrive desktop features released: act now to save your free 25GB storage

This morning, even a bit earlier than we expected, Omar Shahine and Mike Torres posted on the Building Windows 8 blog on the new updates to SkyDrive that “make personal cloud storage for Windows ... Read more »

Microsoft updates Skype and SkyDrive apps for Windows Phone

Microsoft released updates to two high-profile apps today on the Windows Phone marketplace. As promised previously, Microsoft released the final version of the Skype for Windows Phone app.  In addition, Microsoft also bumped the ... Read more »

SkyDrive releases ODF support, more: promises “bigger things coming soon”

As a few of our commenters on this morning’s SkyDrive post noticed, the SkyDrive team, via their Twitter account, have released “a few cool things”: The link, which not coincidentally is using the new ... Read more »

Google Drive on the horizon: can SkyDrive measure up?

The Next Web considered themselves lucky yesterday to be on the receiving end of a draft release, purportedly from a Google partner,  giving away “a wealth of information” on Google’s upcoming competitor to Dropbox ... Read more »

SkyDrive discontinues email publishing feature

Back in the days, even before SkyDrive, there was a feature on Windows Live called “email publishing” which allowed users to publish photos directly to their Windows Live Spaces (remember that?) via email. When ... Read more »

Microsoft is getting ready for next version of Office Web Apps preview for SkyDrive

Office 15 had been a hot topic recently in the press, with a series of screenshots leaked from the Office 15 technical preview. As part of the Office productivity suite, there is also a ... Read more »

A close look at the Windows 8 SkyDrive app

As the dust is now pretty much settled from Microsoft’s significant announcement and release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview last week it’s about time we took a close look at some of the ... Read more »

No PC to PC sync in new SkyDrive

One of the questions our commenters asked about the upcoming integration of Windows Live Mesh into SkyDrive was “what about direct Device to Device synchronization?”.  Currently, you can use Windows Live Mesh to sync ... Read more »

New SkyDrive info: point by point

We’ve had a lot of new info on SkyDrive come at us in the past few days, from all over the place, so much so that its getting a little hard to keep track ... Read more »