Microsoft Corp. officially launched Windows Live SkyDrive in 38 countries and regions worldwide, last week, helping to provide consumers free, password-protected online storage and sharing so they can easily and confidently access their important files from anywhere and share files with the people they choose.
“Windows Live SkyDrive is a great way for people to keep the information they need at their fingertips in order to access directly or to share with the people they choose,” said Jaspreet Bindra, Country Manager, Microsoft Online Services Business.
“With more than 400 million customers worldwide using Windows Live services today, Windows Live SkyDrive helps provide consumers an easy and powerful new way to manage, access and share their data with anyone who has an email address.”
With the release, Windows Live SkyDrive now offers consumer 5 GB of free online storage, which equates to approximately 1,000 songs, over 30,000 Microsoft Office documents of average size or 30,000 digital photos at a resolution of 1200x1200. There is a 50MB limit on each file uploaded.
The new Windows Live SkyDrive offers consumers three ways to store and share files:
• Personal folders: Providing anywhere, anytime access to files and information. Consumers can use the Personal area to help store information they want to have password-protected access to anytime they are online.
• Shared: Shared folders are an easy way to share information with only the people they choose.
• Public: Public folders help enable consumers to share files with anyone on the Internet.
Windows Live SkyDrive was available in beta with a 1 GB storage limit in the US, UK and India only previously. With its official release of the final service offering, the storage size expands and the service also becomes available in 35 new countries and regions: Canada, France, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Japan, the Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Turkey, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal, New Zealand, Taiwan, Korea.
Consumers can find the full set of Windows Live services at http://www.windowslive.com |
