OneDrive is an extensive online service offered by Microsoft. It allows you to backup and share photos, videos and files on a server and access them from anywhere on any device or using a browser with an internet connection. You just need to use a free Windows Live ID to login. Once you have uploaded photos, videos or files to OneDrive, they can be shared, kept personal or protected with a password. If you make them public, then recipient will not require a live ID to access them. It offers 25 GB of free storage space to all its user and has an individual file size limit of 50 MB.
It allows you to upload multiple photos or videos simultaneously or use silver light based flash like uploading tool to schedule an upload of more files. You have another option to upload photos or videos i.e "Drag-and-drop". Here you can simply drag your photos directly from your computer to a location in your OneDrive folder.
Microsoft is upgrading Office 365 users to unlimited OneDrive storage. Microsoft is trying to encourage people to try out its cloud service by including 1TB of storage with Office 365 plans.
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