OneDrive

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Owner	Microsoft
Website	onedrive.live.com
Launched	August 1, 2007; 17 years ago

Microsoft OneDrive (previously Microsoft SkyDrive, Windows Live SkyDrive and Windows Live Folders) is a free file hosting service. It lets users upload files to a cloud storage. The files can be accessed from a Web browser. It was part of the Windows Live range of services. To use the OneDrive service, a user needs a Microsoft account. OneDrive has support for Office Web Apps. It lets users change and make Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote files.

The OneDrive client app adds file synchronization and cloud backup features to its device. The app comes bundled with Microsoft Windows and is available for macOS, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X and S. In addition, Microsoft Office apps directly integrate with OneDrive.

Devices

OneDrive is a simple file hosting service, which comes with great advantages because now the users can upload their content from any electronic device. The user can now upload or download their material from any mobile device, from any computer whether it may be Mac or PC it is fast and convenient without having to use any cables to download or upload any data.^[2]

Storage

Quota

As of July 2018^[update] the service offers 5 GB of free storage for new users. Additional storage is available for purchase.^[3]

In June 2019, alongside the announcement for the Personal Vault, Microsoft announced that it would increase the OneDrive standalone storage plan from 50 GB to 100 GB at no additional charge, and that it would be giving Office 365 subscribers a new option to add more storage as they need it.^[4]

Related pages

Google Drive (The Google version of OneDrive)
MediaFire (Cloud service similar to OneDrive)

References

↑ "Change views on the OneDrive website". Microsoft. § Change language. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
↑ "Microsoft OneDrive". onedrive.live.com. Archived from the original on 2014-03-17. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
↑ "OneDrive grows with you". Microsoft. Archived from the original on October 31, 2014. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
↑ Patton, Seth; Manager, General; Microsoft 365 (2019-06-25). "OneDrive Personal Vault brings added security to your most important files and OneDrive gets additional storage options". Microsoft 365 Blog. Archived from the original on March 7, 2020. Retrieved 2020-03-05.

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[1] "Change views on the OneDrive website". Microsoft. § Change language. Retrieved September 25, 2014.

[2] "Microsoft OneDrive". onedrive.live.com. Archived from the original on 2014-03-17. Retrieved 2014-03-11.

[3] "OneDrive grows with you". Microsoft. Archived from the original on October 31, 2014. Retrieved October 31, 2014.

[4] Patton, Seth; Manager, General; Microsoft 365 (2019-06-25). "OneDrive Personal Vault brings added security to your most important files and OneDrive gets additional storage options". Microsoft 365 Blog. Archived from the original on March 7, 2020. Retrieved 2020-03-05.

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Available in	Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Assamese Azerbaijani (Latin) Bangla (Bangladesh) Bangla (India) Basque (Basque) Belarusian Bosnian (Latin) Bulgarian Catalan Central Kurdish Cherokee (Cherokee) Croatian Czech Danish Dari Dutch English (United Kingdom) English (United States) Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Hausa Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Igbo Indonesian Irish isiXhosa isiZulu Italian Japanese K’iche’ Kannada Kazakh Khmer Kinyarwanda Kiswahili Konkani Korean Kyrgyz Latvian Lithuanian Luxembourgish Macedonian Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Mongolian (Cyrillic) Nepali Norwegian (Bokmål) Norwegian (Nynorsk) Oriya Persian Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Portugal) Punjabi (Gurmukhi) Punjabi (Pakistan) Quechua Romanian Russian Scottish Gaelic Serbian (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Serbian (Serbia, Montenegro) Serbian (Serbia, Montenegro) Sesotho sa Leboa Setswana Simplified Chinese Sindhi Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Tajik Tamil Tatar Telugu Thai Tigrinya Traditional Chinese Turkish Turkmen Ukrainian Urdu Uyghur Uzbek (Latin) Valencian Vietnamese Welsh Wolof Yoruba
Owner	Microsoft
Website	onedrive.live.com
Launched	August 1, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-08-01)