Skydrive

Sky Drive is one of the cloud computing services provided by Microsoft, which provides a variety of cloud solutions over the Internet. Skydrive is the previous name for Microsoft’s cloud storage service, and it has now become its name as it is commonly used by everyone, OneDrive.

Skydrive (OneDrive as commonly used)

Microsoft gives free virtual storage space, starting from 15 gigabytes, and like other competitive cloud service providers, it gives the user the ability to purchase more storage space according to his needs.
Any type of file can be stored in the SkyDrive cloud and accessed from any device, at any time. What is important is an internet connection and registration in a special Microsoft account.
The cloud is accessed via any web browser you have available.

How to use

First, you must create your own Microsoft account and through it, you can access the SkyDrive cloud
Second, go to the SkyDrive site and then register your Microsoft account data in it, and then you will be directed directly to the SkyDrive interface
Third, the user interface is easy to use. You can upload files on your computer through it. You can also create folders to organize your files stored inside them

Features of Skydrive

Among the most important features of SkyDrive is:

1. Its free storage space, which may reach 25 GB
2. It provides editing tools for the files stored in it, such as Microsoft Office files, so that you can modify the files directly via SkyDrive without the need to download them to the computer and run the Microsoft Office program, and this is a kind of cloud computing service: software as a SaaS service
3. The files can be easily accessed, edited, and shared on any device from anywhere and at any time
4. File security and protection so that you can recover lost files from your computer if you have stored them on Skydrive
5. The work team enables the sharing of files and the ability to modify them from more than one user, which facilitates cooperation in work.
6. If you are a Microsoft 365 user, this gives you 1 TB of cloud storage capacity and use the latest versions of Microsoft Office programs.