OneDrive (Storage)
Introduction
Microsoft OneDrive (previously called SkyDrive) is a storage software released on February 18, 2014. Currently, this service offers 5 GB of free storage, plus 15 GB for the camera album, which have been withdrawn from many users, who had acquired that right by purchasing a Lumia smartphone. Up to 5 files can be uploaded at a time as standard with any browser, and you can also install an ActiveX tool that allows you to drag an unlimited number of files directly from Windows Explorer. It is accessible through its website from computers and has applications for Windows 10 (UWP app), Windows 8, Windows Phone, iOS "IOS (operating system)") and Android that allow you to edit documents and spreadsheets.
History
The first reports about this product were in April 2006, where Microsoft announced a "virtual hard drive" to store files on the Internet.[1].
In May 2007 it was launched in beta for a few testers or software testers, and only in the United States, with the name Windows Live Folders[2] On August 1, 2007 the service was launched for a broader market; Since it originally served to host Documents, Images and music within Spaces, each file had to be assigned to three designated categories (private, friends only, public). The site's interface and icons imitated the visual design of the recent Windows Vista. The available space was only 0.25 GB.
Shortly after, on August 9, 2007, Windows Live Folders changed its name to Windows Live SkyDrive, and participation expanded to testers in the United Kingdom and India. As of May 22, 2008, Windows Live SkyDrive is available for 62 countries and regions. By that date the concept of categories were eliminated.[4][5] The space began to gradually grow up to 5 GB.
In August 2008, SkyDrive massively expanded its capacity to 25 GB,[6] in reality the usable space was 20 GB as five were reserved for Live Mesh.
On May 9, 2011, Microsoft announced a major update to SkyDrive, with an installable App for Windows and OS For the SkyDrive.com website, the updates brought a new "modern" design for the Outlook.com-compatible web service and along with the UI update the service also received improvements such as instant search, contextual toolbar, multi-selection in thumbnail view, dragging and dropping files into folders and sorting improvements. For desktop, SkyDrive for Windows and OS X, the update brought new performance improvements for photo uploads and the syncing experience. The update also improved the SkyDrive API with the removal of file type restrictions, capable of uploading images in their full resolution, as well as a new SkyDrive file picker for opening and saving files. A market study by Microsoft itself indicated that only a small number of users exceeded 7 GB used in the service, so it reduced the available space to that figure, but for a limited time it was possible to recover 25 GB.[7]