I keep going back to check. Yes. 25Gb of disk-space.

Microsoft Windows Live is a collection of web-applications built around Microsoft Mail, Microsoft Live Messenger and related Office add-on applications. Most of us had/have a Microsoft IM (Instant Messenger) account. This is now (cleverly) branded as Windows Live Messenger.

The interesting nugget within Windows Live is SkyDrive which offers, cue drum-roll, lights:

25Gb of on—line disk storage!

Sign-up or login to Windows Live and click the More button and select SkyDrive. This provides a secure web-folder for you to upload, organize and store your files courtesy of Microsoft.

You can also choose to share documents, Photos or files with your Windows Live contacts, for example sharing the holiday photos with your family and friends. Neat.

They also offer an IE plug-in to support drag-and-drop of files to be uploaded. It might not be quick, but it gives you another place to backup your files, photos, spreadsheets and source.

Playing devils-advocate we usually ask our customers two-questions about data-security:

(1) When did you last do a backup of your files … and (2) Where did you put it?

If all your data-backup is in a single place, then fire, flood, accident, theft aren’t going to save your backup files. Off-site backup is crucial to home and business customers alike.

Nick Harrington
team ambay software

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