Windows Live is such a heaven 
sent for those who necessitate online storage of files. As a college instructor, I always need to backup files online to counter USB flash breakdowns, as they often do, what with new form of viruses keeps on being invented. We all must have had that horrifying USB experience, one way or another. Sometimes, it makes me think that some mad genius out there is so mad about flash drives that he keeps on inventing and creating viruses just to break them down.
The most secure and guaranteed back-up measure would be to use our mail accounts, especially Yahoo! Mail, now with unlimited storage capacity. However, the sometimes drawn out log-in process could be so disarming when one need not to check mail anyway, but merely to store and backup.
I had for a long-time used Driveway as my storage facility before, it’s free and it has enormous capacity, allowing transfer or one-time storing of more than 10 MB files, which one could not do in other sites, like Yahoo! Briefcase for one.
Driveway was such a sturdy storage site and very efficient and fast. However, one day, I just could not log in and even if I had to request for a new password, it didn’t resolved my predicament. I had to contact support but no response came my way. I was hacked and they didn’t get me through it. And it was not easy to realize that a lot of my files—-some of them I consider so pertinent—-were gone in a jiffy, and since most of them were created eons ago, when I still had the old computer, some files are gone forever, as I had no other copy.
I thought that websites offering services should often have a very active and responsive support system and it ought to be illegal if they haven’t any. Otherwise, that’ll be tantamount to committing public mistrust and disturbance. It should be against web use policy.
Box.net, another online storage bin well-known for its sharp and smooth aesthetics, like fascinating dialogue boxes, has now shown some kinks as one could not log in to it as easily, one gotta try about five times to get through it. Now that’s not what I mean by efficient service. I saw that they have gone to commercializing their storage service for a fee now, so perhaps they make free accounts such a hassle that one who has it is summed up to get a price for it. That’s like a pointed gun.
But Windows Live comes now to the rescue, and it is not merely a free online storage bin, but offers lots of other nifty services, like photo and video sharing, email, browsing, instant messaging, and a horde of others. They even have free downloads for your mobile would you believe.
Skydrive, the portion there that offers free storage, ( click on ‘More’ to go to Skydrive’) allows a total of 25 GB of space and that’s more than enough for many of us.
And besides, we can rely on its reliability and long-term efficiency as it is being owned and operated by none other than the Microsoft Co., one who provides us all with the very nifty Microsoft Office. Just because of this, Windows Live should be the best free online storage bin that is available out there, and we need not look for anything else.
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