SkyDrive from Microsoft offers everyone 25gb of cloud storage for free, it’s the same space that’s used by Live Photo Gallery to create online photos and it’s exceptionally useful.
If you’re using the Office 2010 beta you’ll find that it’s super simple to publish directly to your SkyDrive and from there you can share with other people or just use it for your own storage.
Those without Office 2010 can also make use of the storage by “mapping a drive” to it, basically assigning a drive letter, just like a USB drive in cloud to it. First off you’ll need to register if you’ve not then you can download software like Gladinet or SkyDrive explorer.
There’s a new kid on the block today though, Mike Plate has discovered how to connect to SkyDrive directly from Windows 7, no extra software required. I’ve just tried it and it works a treat!
How to connect to SkyDrive with WebDAV – and my Office 2010 awakening – Mike Plate.
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Simon is an IT Pro Evangelist for Microsoft UK, everything here is his own thoughts and opinion.
