VEECUBED community: Microsoft adds 200GB SkyDrive option

Microsoft is offering SkyDrive users an additional 200GB of storage for £64 a year.

That option's available alongside whatever you already have - so if you only have the 7GB Microsoft gives you for free, paying for the upgrade will get you 207GB in total

There are cheaper options still available, with an additional 50GB costing £16 a year, or a further 100GB for £32 a year. Although there's a 20GB option available in the US, that isn't available for British users.

The new plan matches Amazon's equivalent Cloud Drive option, and is cheaper than either Google Drive or Dropbox. However, Google Drive offers more free storage upfront at 15GB, and its plans range up to 2TB for £750 per year.

SkyDrive's additional storage is limited to the 200GB plan, though Microsoft claims that's "enough space to take a photo, every hour, from the moment someone is born, to the day they graduate".

Microsoft is throwing in a free two-year subscription to SkyDrive at 200GB to anyone buying the Surface 2 - the follow-up to the Surface RT - or the Surface Pro 2.

SkyDrive is also set to see a name change after Microsoft lost a trademark suit to Sky earlier this year. It isn't clear when the service will be renamed or what it'll be called.

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