Windows Live Data Free online data storage option has now officially been launched as as a “non-beta” offering with an impressive 5GB of free storage as reported by the

SkyDrive Team blog:

February 21

Welcome to the bigger, better, faster SkyDrive!

We know it’s been mighty quiet on the SkyDrive blog, but we’ve been hard at work on a new version that we’re proud to announce today!

You’ve made two things clear since our first release: You want more space; and you want SkyDrive where you are. Today we’re giving you both. You now have five times the space you had before — that’s 5GB of free online storage for your favorite documents, pictures, and other files.

SkyDrive is also available now in 38 countries/regions. In addition to Great Britain, India, and the U.S., we’re live in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and Turkey.

This is a part of Microsoft’s Windows Live initiative and appears to be a good way of storing and/or exchanging up to 5GB of your precious files online.

Personal experience using other free systems shows that the speed of transfer and limits on free storage capacity combine to make this only part of a strategy for backup or file exchange. The benefits are:

• Ability to access files from anywhere you can get an Internet connection
• Exchange files with others (friends, family, colleagues, etc.)
• Backup of important files away from the location of the originals (safeguard against fire or theft)

I shall be testing this out shortly and providing a review on what I find.

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