Here’s a quick update for those users of SkyDrive out there (and that includes you too Windows Phone folk).
It seems that Microsoft will be uncapping the allowed storage for photos and documents for its SkyDrive cloud storage service. This could be seen as a form of response to Apple’s forthcoming iCloud service (which uses Windows Azure as part of its backend). However, for the regular Windows and Windows Live user this might not mean so much.
However, users of Windows Phone 7 will find this somewhat more useful as all your photos can be backed up to SkyDrive automatically upon capture (albeit a lower resolution version). Furthermore, Microsoft Office document storage on Windows Phone integrates directly with SkyDrive (which can be accessed within Microsoft Office 2007 & 2010 as well as the cut down Office Web Apps on the web.
It’s been a bit slow but Microsoft now has a reasonable response to Google Docs. With photos thrown into the mix, Microsoft might also have a competitor to Picasa. Maybe we are seeing Microsoft making a comeback?
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