Microsoft OneDrive to Store Everything in Your Life
Microsoft Corp. announced today the global availability of OneDrive, its free, personal cloud storage service.
Formerly known as SkyDrive, OneDrive gives people one place to store important photos, videos and documents that is accessible on the devices they use every day.
The new OneDrive offers a host of new features, including improved video sharing and newly updated apps for Windows Phone, iOS, Android and Xbox.
To celebrate the launch of OneDrive, Microsoft is giving the first 100,000 customers who access their OneDrive account after the launch an additional 100 GB of complimentary storage for one year (customers will receive a notice if they are among the lucky 100,000).
Customers can monitor https://twitter.com/OneDrive for the announcement of the start time for this promotion.
“When someone picks up their phone, tablet or any other device, they just want all of their favorite photos and the documents they need at their fingertips — they don’t want to have to hunt for them,” said Chris Jones, corporate vice president, OS Services, Microsoft. “That’s the lens we are taking with OneDrive.
New features that accompany the availability of OneDrive include automatic camera backup for Android — making it easier for customers to get their photos from their Android phone to their other devices — and video transcoding — making videos as easy to store, view and share as photos.
OneDrive is free for customers up to the first 7 GB of storage; customers also have the option to purchase storage in 50GB, 100GB and 200GB increments.
Current customers will be able to use their existing SkyDrive credentials to access their files in OneDrive.
In addition, current customers who refer friends can receive up to 5 GB of free storage (in 500MB increments) for each friend who accepts an invitation to OneDrive.
Customers can also receive 3 GB of free storage by utilizing the camera backup feature. More information on OneDrive can be found at http://www.onedrive.com.
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