Today the company is also announcing integration to Microsoft SkyDrive, expanding its current storage offering of DropBox, Box and Google Drive.
It's sort of ASUS' own take on Google Drive and Microsoft SkyDrive.
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Dropbox, Google Drive, Box or Microsoft SkyDrive users will enjoy flawless updates straight to the USB device so the latest content will always be readily available.
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In a comparison piece, The Verge noted that the terms of service from four major cloud storage services -- Dropbox, iCloud, Microsoft SkyDrive, and Google Drive -- all claim no ownership of the files you give them.
Microsoft has Skydrive, which gives every user 7GB of storage on the desktop or the mobile, with syncing tools between the devices.
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Today, Microsoft announced SkyDrive is so popular that users have doubled the amount of SkyDrive storage being used in the past six months.
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Last month, Microsoft announced that SkyDrive usage had doubled in the last 6 months.
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Storage services like Microsoft 's SkyDrive and Google's coming Gdrive will only multiply the security problems with "Websourcing" data.
He said every customer would have 50 gigabytes of free storage - far more than is offered by rival services such as Dropbox or Microsoft's SkyDrive.
It's also more closely tied to the cloud, saving documents to Microsoft's SkyDrive storage system by default, so your documents and personal settings are remotely accessible.
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When you're online and signed in with a free Microsoft account (such as Hotmail, Live or Outlook.com), Office will push you toward storing your files online through Microsoft's SkyDrive storage service.
Microsoft's SkyDrive is now one of the centerpieces of the company's desktop and mobile platforms, but its relative newness has denied us some of the fine-grained control we've taken for granted from services like Dropbox.
With this new campaign, Microsoft is undoubtedly making a push to show students the benefits of Microsoft office and the SkyDrive integration.
Today, Microsoft is now offering SkyDrive as an app for Xbox LIVE Gold users, which will be live at 10AM PST.
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Windows Phone 8 also includes Xbox Live, Microsoft Office, 7GB of online SkyDrive storage and faster, safer surfing with Internet Explorer 10.
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Since last summer, Apple has been denying Microsoft the ability to update its SkyDrive app for iOS due to arguments over a drop in revenue from the app.
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Today, Microsoft is removing that requirement, enabling people to share and edit documents from SkyDrive without requiring the recipient to sign in with a Microsoft account.
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Microsoft is also offering students 20GB of SkyDrive storage for free.
Microsoft, meanwhile, is trying to jumpstart SkyDrive by better integrating it with its software.
Microsoft also released a few updates to the SkyDrive apps for Windows Phone and Android improving how users access SkyDrive across different devices.
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There's already 8GB of built-in storage from the outset, while Microsoft is still offering 7GB of cloud storage through SkyDrive -- in short, there are plenty of storage options.
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Microsoft notes that current Outlook.com customers especially enjoy the SkyDrive integration, with more than half a billion photos and Office documents shared by Outlook.com customers via SkyDrive.
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During the past year, Microsoft has faced plenty of controversy regarding its document sharing application, SkyDrive.
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Storage is "virtually" unlimited -- Microsoft doesn't want to promise potential spammers a limitless account -- and anyone creating a Microsoft account for the first time gets the usual 7GB of complimentary SkyDrive storage.
Following a report from The Next Web, Microsoft has confirmed to us that there is indeed a hangup in moving the updated SkyDrive app into the App Store.
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Storage services like Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) SkyDrive and Google's coming Gdrive will only multiply the security problems with "Websourcing" data.
Additionally, Microsoft points out on its blog that photo metadata is retained when users upload to SkyDrive, and opening and saving files to SkyDrive works better with other apps on iOS devices.
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Microsoft apparently really wants students to use Office 365 and its accompanying suite of products, including SkyDrive.
With a similar look and feel, the same technology core, and the same built-in SkyDrive cloud service, Windows Phone 8 is built to work seamlessly with Windows 8 PCs, Microsoft Surface devices and the Xbox 360 console.
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