After the recent refresh of SkyDrive and the introduction of SkyDrive for Windows app, the online storage service from Microsoft is focusing on educating users how sharing files via SkyDrive is a better approach than sending attachments in email.

Microsoft has announced that it plans to discontinue SkyDrive’s “email publishing” feature, which is functionality inherited from the long-discontinued Windows Live Spaces service.

Google’s rumored cloud based storage offering – Google Drive – may offer 5 GB of free online storage, according to a leaked screenshot.

Google may finally launch G-Drive, its rumored cloud storage service in April 2012.

Now, this bit of news will be a bummer to you Live Mesh users out there who are taking advantage of device-to-device syncing: In the upcoming major SkyDrive update that we recently wrote about, Microsoft has no plans to implement this feature when SkyDrive swallows up Mesh. Here’s a comment from SkyDrive team member Mike [...]

Microsoft announces major upgrades to SkyDrive coming with Windows 8, making personal cloud and device cloud a reality.

Portugese blog GEMIND managed to snag some screenshots of an upcoming SkyDrive update that has both tiered, paid storage upgrades, as well as a blurb promoting proper SkyDrive clients for both Windows and OS X (in the same area where, visiting SkyDrive now will show a promotion for the new iPhone and Windows Phone clients.) There are going to be three paid tiers of SkyDrive that each offer additional storage on top of the 25GB that is available for free.