Recently the STA had a storage technology showcase to spread the word about what was happening with the SAS specification and its relations to other storage interfaces.

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Consumers can access Office web apps via SkyDrive for free although there is a 25 GB storage limit and 50 MB file size limit for Word, PowerPoint and OneNote files and a 2 MB file size limit for Excel.

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The latter falls under the Google Docs rubric, which includes hosted word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and data storage.

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You can also create documents from within the browser, letting you work on a Word, Excel, PowerPoint or OneNote file directly in your storage space.

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After all, 100 megabytes is a lot of storage in an age when most people still use their computers primarily for word processing and Internet access.

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