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The official Microsoft SkyDrive application has been released and man am I lovin it, 25 GB of FREE online storage right from with explorer... its digital bliss. Dropbox and the upcoming Google Drive has nothing on SkyDrive. To start, nobody (as far as I know) is offering the amount of free storage that SkyDrive allows, and now in a neat desktop app that does everything Dropbox did with much more room to splurge.
Things to know about the new SkyDrive setup:
- Anyone with a Hotmail or Live email account, which means you also have a SkyDrive account, will get the opportunity to opt in to the full 25GB of cloud storage on SkyDrive. Anyone that already had 4GB or more will be automatically opted into the 25GB. Keep an eye out for the opt in banner across the top of your online SkyDrive web access. These accounts must have been created before 22 April 2012 to be eligible for the additional free storage option. Another caveat: you must have also uploaded at least one file to your SkyDrive to get the increase in free storage.
- Microsoft shows the stats in their Building Windows 8 blog post that the majority of SkyDrive users have less than 7GB’s of storage in use. Based on that they are opting to make that the new level of free storage beginning today. So any new accounts will get the 7GB of free storage.
- All accounts will have the option of purchasing additional SkyDrive storage if needed. 20GB for $10/year; 50GB for $25/year and 100GB for $50/year. Those options are already live on the SkyDrive website.
- File size limitations for uploading have been bumped up from 300MB to 2GB per file.
- The SkyDrive App on Windows will now sync Outlook PST files which Windows Live Mesh/Sync would not do. Depending on the size of the PST file this may be prohibitive for sharing a PST between two machines. Uploads/Downloads to SkyDrive are quite slow but that may also be network congestion as everyone is switching over to the new app today.
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