Microsoft's Outlook.com email service suffered a massive 16-hour outage yesterday, which saw users unable to access parts of SkyDrive, Hotmail, and Outlook, too. Microsoft has revealed that it was a result of a mischievous firmware upgrade — which caused "a rapid and substantial temperature spike in the datacentre". Read More >>
Featured comment by zerobob:
"If I was Microsoft I'd just put it down to computing and networking being extremely complex, buggy and unreliable. It's just a fact." More »
If you're an iOS-using SkyDrive customer, look away now -- this ain't gonna be pretty. As corporations with £70 billion in the loose change jars like doing, Apple is shaking down Microsoft to get every last copper out of its SkyDrive service -- Microsoft's not gonna give in that easy though. Read More >>
Featured comment by ronan.lavelle1:
"The dispute between Microsoft and Apple has serious consequences for App developers who publish 'free' apps in the App Store, only to then charge user..." More »
Spotted in the wild: code in Microsoft's SkyDrive that seems to show a native music player in the Redmond giant's cloud storage solution -- looks like Microsoft's finally planning something to challenge Google Music. (But ok, it probably won't be out in time to play Jingle Bells on repeat.) Read More >>
Anyone remember Microsoft's Courier concept? Pretty nifty, huh? While it might have an unofficial spiritual-successor in the equally neat iPad app Taposé, a group of developers from Microsoft's Visual C++ team are bringing back some of the Courier inspiration to the Windows camp via a Windows 8 app codenamed Project Austin, which allows you to do all sorts of things with your notes. Read More >>
Now that Google Drive is finally here and you can use it, the first question is simple: Is it better than the cloud service you're already using (or maybe considering using)? We haven't had the chance to put Google Drive through the ringer quite yet, but we can compare it to the competition on paper. Read More >>
Featured comment by Udimion:
"I don't quite see how anything I said was a misnomer.
And I think it is a valid point that no one option works across all platforms. Yes you can ac..." More »
Microsoft is launching a couple of new SkyDrive apps making the cloud storage service available to more users on more platforms. Starting today, a preview version is available for the desktop, so if you're running Windows Vista, Windows 7, the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, and even Windows for Mac (OS X Lion), you can access the service locally. Read More >>
Featured comment by 21st Century Lurch:
"I'm the same, but I also use skydrive/live mesh to sync files between the laptop and netbook I use for writing. I agree that Box is a great long term..." More »
Up until now, Microsoft's SkyDrive has mostly been noteworthy for the staggering amount of free storage it offers to users (25 GB) and little else. But with the introduction of Windows 8, it will acquire a whole new set of features, along with the new Metro UI, which they believe will make it much more integral to users. Read More >>
Featured comment by dirtymagic86:
"Still no way of streaming music from your Skydrive through the standard music player on WP7? Come on Microsoft.." More »
Previously, if you weren't on Windows, you couldn't take full advantage of all the awesomeness that was in SkyDrive, Microsoft's neato cloud storage service. Not anymore! They've just released an iOS app that'll let you upload photos, files, documents and manage SkyDrive folders straight from your iPhone. Read More >>
Featured comment by chrisbranson:
"Last time I checked there was a 100Mb file size limit on SkyDrive - not aware of any similar limitation with Dropbox?" More »
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