We've talked about SkyDrive in the past here at TechNorms and we're big fans of any cloud-based service that helps make our lives easier. Office 365 integrates Microsoft's SkyDrive service in a way to let you get the most of the popular productivity suite no matter where you need to use it. By being able to save documents ...

Microsoft SkyDrive has emerged as a powerful tool in the cloud for those looking to connect e-mail, pictures, videos and more online. Since its introduction, Microsoft has tweaked, upgraded and evolved SkyDrive into a service that can truly compete with level footing against Dropbox, Google Drive and more. If you have recently upgraded or bought a computer with Windows 8, taking advantage of your Microsoft Account and SkyDrive can be a ...

The jump from Windows 7, and indeed everything that's gone before it since Windows 3.1, to the Metro UI in Windows 8, is quite blatantly an enormous change to get to grips with for users. But what's made Microsoft's software so popular over recent years, particularly amongst the vast majority of non-techy consumers, is its familiarity - including, and especially, Office applications. Even the relatively slight, in comparison to Windows 8, change to the ribbon UI brought in for Office 2007, was met with more than ...

As the migration of our data from our desktops to the 'Cloud' continues, it is of the utmost importance that we find the right place to put it. The place that suits us best, that caters to our individual needs, and a place we can trust. There are any number of options out there from developers which differ massively in their backgrounds. In this article, we've drawn up a comprehensive comparison between what the offerings of what are considered the five leading lights in the cloud storage sector: Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft ...

The Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Beta) has finally been unveiled to us today. Of course many of us have had the opportunity to play around with the Developer Preview of Windows 8 for a while now, but what's new in the Consumer Preview? As you'd expect Microsoft have worked hard to smooth out many of the bugs from the Developer Preview, in fact they've changed over 100,000 lines of code for ...

Recently, Microsoft released a new iPhone app for its SkyDrive service. For those of you who are not aware, SkyDrive is a Google Docs-like service which lets you store your files in the cloud and access them anywhere in the world using a web browser. SkyDrive may not be as popular as Google Docs but it has its own significant user base. And with that, Microsoft is treating  these users with a mobile app for iPhone which is currently available as a ...

The technology industry is a lot like living here in the UK. It's not a matter of if, but when the cloud arrives. What still separates them though, is that we largely welcome what the virtual cloud rains down on us. All the leading players are latching onto the concept of the cloud, and each in their own way are trying to make it their own. Apple has iCloud, Google has a range of services too extensive for an introductory paragraph, and Microsoft has Windows and Xbox Live. We have already seen

Microsoft has steadily begun working with SkyDrive to make it competitive with Google Docs, dropbox and other similar services over the last few months. However, the latest update to SkyDrive not only looks at what other services are doing right but also what users want to see in the service. This is the most feedback-driven update in SkyDrive’s history. While other services are often seen as ...

Online storage comes in abundance these days, from a raft of different vendors, varying from the ginormous to the otherwise unheard of, yet so far Google is somehow missing out, in spite of offering its own product already. Google Docs does have the capability already of storing files other than those created within the cloud-based office suite, yet it's not widely adopted as such by consumers. So naturally, Google wants to get in on the game properly, and considering Google is the most cloud-focussed of the tech behemoths, it's surprising that ...

Since Microsoft has decided to jump on the Cloud bandwagon, it has focused a lot of its efforts on revamping Windows Live SkyDrive. Anyone using the Internet now is looking for ways to upload, edit and share on the go and SkyDrive seeks to bring everything a Windows Live users wants and need in its service. Just recently SkyDrive increased its storage space from 5 GB ...