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    News - Microsoft revamps SkyDrive cloud storage service and apps

    Now looks a bit like Outlook.com with a “Modern UI”.
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    Re: News - Microsoft revamps SkyDrive cloud storage service and apps

    It's actually a pretty useful way of sharing pics with my family members who all use hotmail accounts. Will take a while to fill up 25Gb.

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    Re: News - Microsoft revamps SkyDrive cloud storage service and apps

    Hmm, nice interface. Actually like the look of that more than Dropbox and Drive interfaces.
    Oh no, I'm starting to like Metro!
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    It's actually a pretty useful way of sharing pics with my family members who all use hotmail accounts. Will take a while to fill up 25Gb.
    You're on the paid service then? Because the article says you "only" get 7GB. That said, I've not bothered to try sharing out my Dropbox, so I'm thinking it might be worth signing up for Skydrive to use solely as a share space - basically following your lead.

    But I'd really like to see a Linux client too - after all if Dropbox can do it...

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    Re: News - Microsoft revamps SkyDrive cloud storage service and apps

    No if you signed in shortly after the service changed earlier in the year you got the full 25Gb as it used to be. I was a bit fortunate with my google drive as well because I was paying a few dollars a year for 20Gb extra on picasa for photos. When gdrive came out with the new monthly pricing my 20Gb was added to that also and as long as I don't upgrade storage I keep paying only a few dollars a year. Got 50Gb dropbox with the S3 as well, dunno what to do with all of it.

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    Re: News - Microsoft revamps SkyDrive cloud storage service and apps

    yeah people with old skydrive accounts got free 25GB, managed to get it aswell . Dropbox is a godsend, sharing is what its all about as an example at uni I have a shared folder for all the group work where we will upload parts that we decided to do, very easy to edit and improve on work and easy to store!.

    Skydrive will be better eventually and its starting to get used by myself however the main thing for me is that I will never be storing that much as upload speeds are so slow... 3mb/s is so slow to do anything substantial other than work.
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    Re: News - Microsoft revamps SkyDrive cloud storage service and apps

    Hmm
    I only have 7 gb and I've had skydrive for about a year, now.
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