Windows Live SkyDrive Launches Today

Today Windows Live SkyDrive leaves the "Beta" tag behind - introducing 5GB of storage for its users and becoming available in 35 new countries and regions. Read the Windows Live SkyDrive launch announcement from their team blog!

On top of being available to users in the United States, United Kingdom, and India, Windows Live SkyDrive is now available in the following 35 countries and regions:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Finland, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and Turkey.

With 5GB of storage, you can store quite a bit of your photos, music, Office documents and more. Did I mention that the 5GB of storage is also free?

For those who have been beta testing Windows Live SkyDrive - with today's launch you can expect to see improvements with the backend that help improve performance on top of the increase to 5GB of storage from 1GB previously.

Here on the Windows Experience Blog, I use Windows Live SkyDrive to host the OPML files for my Microsoft Team Blogs page. Yes, the page may be a little out of date but a big update is coming very soon with a few more categories. You can download the OPML files and add them to your RSS feed reader directly from Windows Live SkyDrive. We also have a Public Folder setup on Windows Live SkyDrive for the Windows Vista Team Blog too.

You can head on over to skydrive.live.com and login with your Windows Live ID to use Windows Live SkyDrive today.

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Comments

  1. windows vista ultimate...
    Posted on: February 25, 2008 at 11:00PM  

    WTF African languages

    africa dont even have skydrive xD

  2. dovella
    Posted on: February 26, 2008 at 1:41AM  

    @john

    not emotion too much, you do not see how many countries still are not covered ??

    also we in Italy have been a lot often discarded, this time we have been fortunate to having the service between first.therefore it tries not to be gross and you know to attend

  3. john
    FeaturedCommunity
    Posted on: February 26, 2008 at 2:30AM  

    @dovella: No worries, man. Brandon is my friend, I was just giving him a hard tme.

  4. Brandon LeBlanc
    Microsoft
    Posted on: February 26, 2008 at 2:40AM  

    john, good feedback on the African languages. Relaying it to the SkyDrive Team.

    Oh and John, you should be giving me a hard time more here! ;-) Keeps me on my toes.

    - Brandon

  5. dovella
    Posted on: February 26, 2008 at 4:32AM  

    ok john ;)

    Gibbon :D

  6. saladbar1
    Posted on: February 26, 2008 at 8:01AM  

    Thats cool... now I have an additional 5 GB to my 7+ GB iDisk (cough cough)

  7. ashish
    Posted on: February 28, 2008 at 9:43PM  

    I logged in to check it out. Nice and simple.

    A few points I noticed -

    1) The upload was much slower as compared to normal upload to web. A simple file took almost double the time.

    2) Although I did not spend too much time on it today, I could not find a way to move files betweeb folder. I mean I would live to shift files from private to shared to public as and when needed. Maybe I would look for methods..

    3) Would the files in the shared folders be avaiable to only those who have a Live ID?

    Still thinking - If I have to put my work docs onto it for sharing with coworkers.. not sure..

    Ashish

  8. Brandon LeBlanc
    Microsoft
    Posted on: February 28, 2008 at 9:53PM  

    ashish,

    I haven't noticed bad upload speeds myself - where are you located?

    There isn't a way to move files between folders in Windows Live SkyDrive just yet - however the SkyDrive Team is watching the comments on this post so I'll be sure they see your feedback on this.

    And yes - files in shared folders can be shared with only folks who have Windows Live ID's. That is how permissions are set and that is how folks login to the site to access the shares.

    However you can make folders public too.

    Nick and I use SkyDrive to share files such as Word Documents and Excel spreadsheets all the time and its worked out well.

    - Brandon

  9. saladbar1
    Posted on: February 29, 2008 at 10:17PM  

    SteveBallmer:

    "Let's see crapple and the others touch that! We are the very first company in the world to have online storage! WhoooHoooo!"

    Just to let you know, Apple has had their iDisk feature with .Mac long before SkyDrive.

  10. donquist
    Posted on: January 27, 2009 at 5:22AM  

    2 things

    1) Shell Integration Please!  being forced to use a browser for a 'Drive' is.. well, no.

    2) 50MB file size limitation.  Maybe a little bigger since its now 25GB

    Other then that, good stuff, though still using dropbox for the desktop client.

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