Microsoft is renaming SkyDrive as OneDrive. The company's cloud file-storage service, which launched in 2007, will soon be rechristened with the new name, and all SkyDrive products will eventually migrate to OneDrive.com.
The name change comes months after Microsoft agreed to rebrand SkyDrive after a legal dispute with UK-based Sky Broadcasting. Microsoft says "OneDrive" reflects its intention to recast its cloud service as the "one place for all your documents." Microsoft has been increasingly steering its customers toward using SkyDrive, giving away 200GB of free storage for two years to anyone who buys a Surface tablet as well as making SkyDrive the default place to store documents in apps like Word and Excel in Windows 8.1. Read more...
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