Microsoft OneDrive launches worldwide

Microsoft announced Wednesday the global availability of OneDrive, its free, personal cloud storage service. Formerly known as SkyDrive, OneDrive gives people one place to store important photos, videos and documents that is accessible on the devices they use every day. The new OneDrive offers a host of new features, including improved video sharing and newly updated apps for Windows Phone, iOS, Android and Xbox. To celebrate the launch of OneDrive, Microsoft is giving the first 100,000 customers who access their OneDrive account after the launch an additional 100 GB of complimentary storage for one year (customers will receive a notice if they are among the lucky 100,000). Customers can monitor https://twitter.com/OneDrive for the announcement of the start time for this promotion.

Not Realy Launched Yet?

The url posted i  the press release points to preview.onedrive.com. When I logon I still see skydrive in the URL and Logo’s. Also when I download the windows client I still get SkyDriveSetup.exe… On my iPhone however the Skydrive client was autoupdated during the night to OneDrive.

 

Full press release at source

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