Are you a serious shutterbug who carries a device with a small hard drive? Don’t delete, SkyDrive. In this day and age, people’s data needs are growing faster than the storage capacity on their mobile devices. SkyDrive provides a way to have access to all of your files without actually having them take up space on your device.
Things are hopping in the cloud-storage business – industry trends show that even though devices have larger storage capacities (growing 25 percent per year), people’s data and files are growing significantly faster (around 50 percent per year). The goal of SkyDrive, deeply integrated into Windows 8.1, is to design cloud storage at the same scale so people can have their files with them on any of their devices. SkyDrive “placeholder files” on your devices use precious little disk space and Internet bandwidth. SkyDrive will only download the file when you actually need it, thereby freeing up space on your phone, tablet and desktop PC.
For some creative ways on managing your files and freeing up space on your device using SkyDrive, and to read more about SkyDrive’s integration with Windows 8.1, check out the Inside SkyDrive blog.
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Jennifer Warnick
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