Saturday, March 8, 2008

Your own Drive in Net Sky


Microsoft offers largest-ever 5 GB online Storage


* Users can upload and store their files in three folders
* There is a generous limit of 50 MB for any one file

If you have portable hard drives and larges capacity memory sticks that you lug on your ravels, prepare to shed them now.

Microsoft is offering free personal and secure storage on the web of a whopping 5 gigabytes to users registered for its windows Live Services.

Users of its Hotmail e-mail service can access this virtual hard drive on the web using the same name and password.

The service, which was in a beta form with limited storage and went live last week across the world, can be accessed at http://skydrive.live.com/.


Users can upload and Store their files in three folders:

Personal” which they alone can access

"Share with friends” which will be open to designated friends who are also registered Windows Live users

Share with the World” where one can place files that are open to the wider public to view.

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