Microsoft’s cloud storage service, SkyDrive, has received several updates in past few weeks, and the progressive updates continue to integrate it well across Windows Phone and Windows. Recently, SkyDrive enabled shortened URLs for these links using the new sdrv.ms domain.

Amazon too now has desktop clients for their little known consumer cloud product called Cloud Drive

The SkyDrive team at Microsoft has created two videos to help iDisk users migrate to SkyDrive and why SkyDrive is better than iCloud.

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.

The online cloud storage wars has just exploded with the introduction of Google Drive earlier today. With Google Drive, now all major mobile operating system providers have some form of proprietary cloud storage solution including SkyDrive for Windows Phone 7 and iCloud for iOS along with several others like Dropbox, Box and SugarSync.

It was no secret that Google was working on a competitor to Dropbox and SkyDrive and the official announcement came today. Google Drive will provide users with 5GB of free online storage space to all users. This is line with Microsoft’s recent announcement to provide 7GB of free space for SkyDrive.

Paid storage, remote browsing through browser, updated mobile apps and a desktop app just like Dropbox.

According to several reports, it is expected that Google Drive will be available as a web based service, along with a desktop client which would allow users to sync files across computers and mobile devices. This is Google’s long awaited counter to Apple’s iCloud and the extremely popular file sync service, Dropbox.

SkyDrive team announces short URL for images shared on Twitter via Windows Phone, ODF support and individual file sizes of up to 300MB.

Short URL, BitLocker management, ODF support, paid expansion, remote file browsing, and desktop clients are some of the features expected in SkyDrive’s next update.

Microsoft has launched a new service that allows developers to quickly create rich and interactive data mashups for their sites.

SkyDrive gets a major update. Social sharing, PDF support, more like a desktop apps, HTML5 and geolocation mapping.

Microsoft will soon provide unlimited cloud storage for office documents and image files. Users will still enjoy 25 GB of free storage space for all other files with the 100 MB maximum file size limitation.

Utilize Microsoft Word 2010′s ability to connect with Windows Live Skydrive for ease of access, and disaster recovery.

The new SkyDrive brings together all photos, docs, and files into one view and the layout is consistent with Hotmail’s Quick views feature while the navigational elements are borrowed from Windows. Also, this release adds a useful information pane in place of ads. Yes, SkyDrive is ad-free now.