How Microsoft SkyDrive Is Making Cloud Storage Less Painful

With Windows 8, Microsoft integrated SkyDrive more deeply into the Windows experience, making it easy to save documents and providing a pre-loaded SkyDrive app. In Windows 8.1, the integration advances to the next level; SkyDrive becomes the default place to save new documents.
There's a reason behind the strong move toward online storage, and it's not just because Microsoft has a love affair with the cloud. It turns out consumers are using ever-greater amounts of data storage. Although that's no shocker, storage on devices isn't keeping pace. Microsoft said people's data needs are increasing 50% every year, but device capacities are going up by only 25%.