Microsoft SkyDrive reaches 250 milllion userbase
<p>Here is a great infographic from SkyDrive dev team, celebrating the 250 million user milestone. SkyDrive is one of the cloud storage services that has seen very good growth in past year or so and we do wish all the best to the team and hope that they soon reach a billion users</p>
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<p>”In just the past few months we’ve made SkyDrive the <a href=”http://blogs.office.com/b/office-next/archive/2013/01/31/why-sign-in-your-files-are-always-waiting-for-you-with-office-365.aspx”>default save location for the new Office</a>, updated the <a href=”http://blogs.windows.com/skydrive/b/skydrive/archive/2013/04/03/update-to-skydrive-app-for-ios.aspx”>SkyDrive app for iOS</a>, and made substantial performance improvements to SkyDrive uploading. Recently, we also announced that Microsoft accounts have <a href=”http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2013/04/17/microsoft-account-gets-more-secure.aspx”>grown to 700 million</a>, that we’ve improved the security of our service with things like two-step verification, and that we now have <a href=”http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2012/12/10/outlook-com-increases-security-with-support-for-dmarc-and-ev-certificates.aspx”>Extended Validation Certificates</a> integrated on SkyDrive.com. And a few days ago, our friends over at Outlook.com announced that they’re rolling out a new feature that allows you to <a href=”http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2013/05/02/outlook-com-400-million-active-accounts-hotmail-upgrade-complete-and-more-features-on-the-way.aspx”>insert anything from your SkyDrive directly into an email message</a>. We continue to push forward to a world where all your stuff is in SkyDrive, so you can always have it with you.”, said, <span style=”color:rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family:segoe ui,tahoma,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px”>Omar Shahine, Group Program Manager, SkyDrive.com and </span><span style=”color:rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family:segoe ui,tahoma,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px”>Mike Torres, Group Program Manager, SkyDrive apps</span></p>
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<a href=”http://blogs.windows.com/skydrive/b/skydrive/archive/2013/05/06/over-250m-people-using-skydrive.aspx” target=”” title=””>Source</a><br />
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