Online Back-ups with SkyDrive

Obviously free online back-up solutions are not a solution for video archives - the free space is just too small.  But for everything else associated with your projects there are some great choices.  Stardust Beach tried Google Docs but not being able to work in native formats for MS Office documents was a problem.  Enter Microsoft - yes Bill and the boys.  Their free SkyDrive kicks Google butt (when is the last time you heard that?).  With a hotmail or live account (click here) you get 25 GB of free storage with online collaboration options in the cloud! Plus you get 5 GB of sync space that automatically updates files from selected folders on your PC onto SkyDrive.  You likely have a Flickr account for your pictures and videos on YouTube ... for all the rest there is SkyDrive.  Never lose an important file.  Worried about security online, use passwords for those sensitive Word docs and Excel workbooks.

What's next for SkyDrive? Rumours of unlimited storage for photos and Office docs and then 25 GB of everything else: click for more info