I have blogged previously about Microsoft’s cloud storage offering known as SkyDrive. When it hit public beta it was offering 1GB of online storage.
It has now gone live, removing the beta tag and ramped up the storage to 5GB. Good news indeed.
There is one key piece of functionality missing:
Local Drive letter mapping
Access to 5GB of free online storage is of course extremely useful, but as the only interface to your data for uploading and downloading is a web page, it is not that easy to use.
And I am guessing that this is why Microsoft has not yet released a drive letter mapping interface for SkyDrive – usage will rocket as soon as they do.
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I was impressed with Microsoft for introducing this service free of charge *kudos* and excited to start using the generous 5GB of space, but was also let down when I was unable to find a way to map this \’SkyDrive\’.
I think Live Mesh fills this gap (i.e. mapping cloud storage to local storage) pretty well so I dout you\’ll see this from Skydrive.