Microsoft launches SkyDrive

adds storage

[bill]

Windows Live SkyDrive [skydrive.live.com] is out of beta and they have added a bit of storage to the service, now 5GB.

Store files for yourself
Using multiple computers? No problem. Store and access your personal files from anywhere online.

Share files with friends
Sharing with friends, co-workers, or family is easy when you all add and update files in a shared folder.

Share files with the world
Some ideas are too good to keep to yourself. Share them in a public folder that only you can update.

Microsoft has beaten Google to the punch with this free online storage service. It will be see what Google's offering has.

[davec]

Good stuff, I always have worries about security when storing stuff online, but for anything that you aren't worried about, might be useful.

[scraptoft]

Share files with the world
Some ideas are too good to keep to yourself. Share them in a public folder that only you can update.

Could cause some security risks. But I suppose this isn't the first platform to offer file sharing.

[jpman]

Just tried to sign up...........got this message

We are working to fix a temporary problem with our sign-up service.
Please try again.

Error code: 15

duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[engine]

Working fine for me. Neat facility, thanks, and it's free.

[ByronM]

Excellent. Now i have a secondary home for my digital photos!

[kapow]

If you choose to delete something is it really deleted?

[Hobbs]

SkyDrive to store my files?
And someone actually got paid to choose this name.

[bill]

And someone actually got paid to choose this name.

Sure. It's part of their cloud computing initiative. ;)

[briggidere]

this is cool.

[skipfactor]

>>Microsoft has beaten Google to the punch with this free online storage service.

First thing I thought. After the gmail plugin thing for file storage I thought Google would have introduced it ages ago. Way to go MS for beating G to the punch. Of course, it never would have been "free" from MS w/o the mega-storage Gmail/search wars. Reminds me of Site Explorer and Google's return volley of a more useful Webmaster Tools. Damn there are breathing ppl(& webmasters!) paying attention at Y!/MS.

[dakuma]

Wow, very useful, file size limit of 50mb/file but very nice to be able to setup folder/sub folders. Can't wait to see the Google response :)

[Namaste]

are the serious they want users to upload file by file !

[civgroup]

I hope this doesn't mean they'll stop their FolderShare service - I'm hooked on that.

[bill]

FolderShare service

FolderShare [foldershare.com] is a very different service. That synchronizes folders containing up to 10K files each on multiple PCs. The SkyDrive capacity is nowhere near the level it would need to threaten FolderShare anytime soon.