Must have just come through as a Windows 7 update - but all of a sudden I have this:



When I created a file in it I had to log in to my Windows Live account and it was good to go.

I guess it will be interesting to see how this goes compared to DropBox and Google Drive. The obvious advantage Microsoft has is that they can just drop this on you with an update - fully integrated, ready to go. That seems like quite an advantage to me.

If I log in to to SkyDrive online it looks like this. And yeah, hardware, it's in German, leave me alone.



I guess what's interesting is that because the test.docx is Microsoft Office doc you would expect to be able to click on it and edit it - which I did. Seems pretty good. No more feature enhanced than Google Docs though really, which is my preferred solution currently.

what's the free storage limit?

i've been comparing the main 3 to decide. doesn't google drive not allow you to edit ms docs?

what's the free storage limit?

7Gb (use to be 25Gb).

Only thing I find annoying about SkyDrive is it doesn't work with Office365 accounts as they seem to use a different auth system to Windows Live.

ok next question.

i know with DB it's just any old email account to open a DB account.

what about the other 2? can i use my work email account or do i have to create a gmail or hotmail. (i currently have my own personal accounts for both but am looking to keep work entirely separate)

Google Accounts you used to be able to use any email account as a login. Basically your email account was just your username. Not sure how it is these days.Opec, how much space are you using on that?

Only about 5-6 GB now. Also I made a typo, I bought 25GB plan not 50GB.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/24/google-drive-vs-the-competition-dropbox-skydrive-icloud/

Might be slightly out of date now though..

must be an office update coz I don't have no fancypants sky drivin on my putah.

It's a separate installer you can grab from the SkyDrive website, once installed it just grabs its updates through Windows Updates like other Microsoft applications do.

I had SkyDrive activated on two MS Passport accounts before they did the overhaul/new pricing structure, sup free 50GB cloud storage for life!

this is why I turn off auto update. I let it check automatically, but make it tell me when stuff is available rather than just installing random shit whenever it wants. Partly because one night it just decided to shut down my computer while I was doing something. GG.

whats wrong with skydrive? 100gb for $100 year.