So you may have heard about this? Microsoft has expanded your live-id with an online drive of 25gb of free storage (and I have even heard that if you use the whole thing they will expand your storage automatically, this however is unconfirmed).
So what can you use this for?
Well I immediately thought of an online backup of all my digital photos, and sure enough its possible (and my photo archive is still less than 25gb). However nothing is ever perfect and this is also true for Skydrive, my problem with it is the file management – I organized my photos in a lot of different folders starting with a year folder and then moving down, however in skydrive you can ONLY upload files NOT folders – well you can manually create folders and upload to them but NOT drag and drop a folder (including subfolders) to SkyDrive. So is this a show stopper, well no but if your files make use of a complex folder structure then uploading to SkyDrive WILL require some work.
So SkyDrive is indeed exiting but not perfect, but as its free you cant really complain too much can you 😉
You can share your SkyDrive or parts of it with friends which is quite nice.
I recommend you check it out, and while you are at it also check out the related services Live Mesh and Live Sync;
http://www.labnol.org/internet/compare-windows-live-sync-mesh-and-skydrive/6166
To check out SkyDrive log in to;
http://skydrive.live.com (use your live-id or create one)