Microsoft SkyDrive Now Stores Over 1 Billion Documents
Microsoft announced Friday that SkyDrive has hit a major
milestone: there are now more than 1 billion Office documents stored on the
cloud service.
SkyDrive has been around since 2007, but it really gained
traction at the end of 2011 when Microsoft started rolling out SkyDrive apps
for iPhone, Android and Windows phones. The service is also integrated more
seamlessly into the latest version of Microsoft Office, which was released at
the end of last month.
To help SkyDrive grow even more quickly, Microsoft
announced that it will now let users share and edit documents from Office web
apps without requiring them to sign in with a Microsoft account. It's not a
huge change, but it does remove a restriction that may have stopped some from
storing and sharing documents through the service.
While a billion may seem like a lot, the most popular
consumer cloud storage service, Dropbox, has more than 100,000,000 users.
According to the company's information site, users save one billion files to
Dropbox every 24 hours.
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