SkyDrive

Microsoft SkyDrive Now Available as an application for Windows Phone and the iPhone. If you're a fan of Dropbox, box.net or other online storage services, you may want to give attention to Microsoft. Microsoft SkyDrive released for iPhone and Windows Phone on Wednesday. SkyDrive provides you with free online storage of 25 Gigabyte which allows you to be able to store and share all kinds of digital files that you want.

Users of Windows Phone already has SkyDrive connected with photo galleries and Office applications, but the service is not yet available for other purposes except as a repository for email from Windows Live. Owner of Windows Phone itself automatically receive upon registering SkyDrive service to Microsoft's Live services, which are required for each Windows Phone.

Apple offers a free account iCloud 5GB for each iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, but iCloud iDisk does not include services that were previously available for MobileMe subscribers. MobileMe from Apple offers 20GB of storage is priced at $ 99 per year, can be upgraded by purchasing additional storage space. ICloud service unfortunately not available as a file storage service like Dropbox and SkyDrive.

Unlike Dropbox, SkyDrive application lets you create and delete folders directly from within the application. Unfortunately, this is not a sync feature at this time. Actually not difficult to map a folder in Windows to SkyDrive service, just need to install additional software, although it seems Microsoft is preparing SkyDrive for Windows, Android, and Mac. When the application is finally arriving for a variety of platforms, then you will see serious competition for Dropbox and box.net.

SkyDrive also allows you to share documents with other SkyDrive users or by other means, that is distributing the link for the file you want to share. If you penguna Hotmail, Microsoft Messenger, Windows Live or Xbox Live, you automatically have SkyDrive.

SkyDrive for iPhone and Windows Phone are available at each store apps - App Store and Marketplace.