Tempted by the 5 Gigs of free space, I decided to try out Microsoft's SkyDrive today. It's tied to Windows Live, which reminds me of my major complain with MS, there's no reason it needs to be. The "keep it simple" philosophy has never been whispered at MS, instead it's how can we make a product that integrates with everything else under the sun when it doesn't need to be (for example a blog built in with your file sharing seems odd). After numerous errors, I finally gave up trying to use Firefox to setup my account and had to switch to IE.
Once setup, I thought it had some possibilities to be something that would be vary handy. I love my thumb drive, but there are times when I forget it. It would be nice to have 5 Gigs in the sky waiting for me. That was until I attempted to add an 80 Meg movie and was informed that the max size of files was 50 Megs. Uggh, that's hardly any fun at all!
I've tried Xdrive years ago. I disliked having to run their software (that may have changed by now), so it never really caught on with me. My current temp space is over on RapidShare. It too has limits, but their limit is 100 Megs per file. SkyDrive is decent overall, but the small limit on the files size is a real bummer. Wonder when Google makes their version, have a feeling they wouldn't put any size limit on files.
If you want to watch a short HD clip of some video I took of the Shamu Believe Show (unfortunately it's in two parts and you'll have use WinRar to join them) It's HERE It's kind of strange because to find the files, a mouse over my profile picture is needed to bring up my recent items. From there, it's possible to get to the files.
With all the photo sites out there, I can't see any reason to use SkyDrive to share pictures. With the the limit on files size, I also can't see it being very useful for sharing anything with any size. Hopefully, MS dumps that silly file size limit, then I'd have another useful tool.
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