Microsoft SkyDrive Bumps up Storage to 25GB

skydrive_logo Microsoft has been working real hard on their online storage service SkyDrive. We were told by the SkyDrive Team that an update was coming, and here it is! They’ve increased the storage space for their free service from 5GB to 25GB, making it one among the largest free online storage providers. SkyDrive has opened up for 6 more regions and 13 more languages.

What’s new in SkyDrive:

  • Free storage space increase to 25GB
  • Windows Live Wave 3 look and feel
  • Folders can now be entirely downloaded as ZIP file.
  • SkyDrive users can now view photos in beautiful slide show.
  • Share files with users who don’t have Windows Live ID

Previously, SkyDrive demanded users to login to their Windows Live ID to view shared stuff, but not anymore. You can share files and folder with anybody with a email address without requiring Windows Live ID. 25GB of free storage is massive indeed, but before you can think of using SkyDrive for backup, let me tell you that individual file size restriction is 50MB, that means your DVDs won’t fit there.

This post was published by on December 6, 2008

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  • http://www.greatpriceshere.com Nicole Price

    Despite the capacity not being enough for using as back up the free storage space is indeed very attractive and the fact that now we can share files quite easily, is a bonus. Thanks for this tip off.

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    Microsoft is trying, however the fact that the file sizes are limited to 50MB is not ideal.

  • http://www.gadgets4nowt.co.uk Wii

    That is a huge amount of capacity, the bottle neck for me would be uploading though, just not quick enough (although my broadband should be upgraded soon, hopefully).

    Still, great storage idea.

  • http://www.cure-acne.net Brian ” Cure Acne ” W.

    This sounds great, i have yet to try it out, I am wondering how it competes with Google picasa, and the gmail storage

  • http://www.theblogoholic.com the Blogoholic

    Huh? How come nobody ever told me of this service before? Hehe :)

    Thanks for sharing, I will check it out right now.

  • http://www.gadgets4nowt.co.uk Wii

    You really hadn’t heard of it before? Where have you been?

  • http://www.pixobyte.com Nicholas | pixobyte.com

    wow!! its amazing!! 25 GB? Great!! Thanks for sharing this useful info

  • http://techmantra.net Vikram

    25 GB for free ? That too from microsoft is just amazing !

  • http://premiumtricks.blogspot.com/ Daniel

    25 Gigs but 50 Megs each? Can’t do much either.. But better than nothing.. How about the download and upload speed?

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsxORShwCtA eczema

    nice info. when they bump it up to 100 gb, then I can get rid of my portable harddrives.

  • http://www.theblogoholic.com/ the Blogoholic

    Huh? How come nobody ever told me of this service before? Hehe :)

    Thanks for sharing, I will check it out right now.