For $7 a month you can get one coffee a week. Or you could have an unlimited amount of cloud storage from Microsoft. Awesome, right?
OneDrive was already one of the best cloud storage apps around, and it’s even better now that Microsoft has decided to throw storage limits out the window. Now you can stuff everything on your PC — heck, everything on your home LAN — into your OneDrive store and sync it all to Microsoft’s cloud for easy access to your files no matter where you are.
There’s a bonus, too. Technically, they’re offering unlimited free OneDrive space to Office 365 users. That’s where the $7 per month comes in — it’s the base rate for a 365 Personal subscription when you pay annually. So not only is their no ceiling on how many gigs of data you can store in the cloud, you also get access to the entire Office suite — Word, Excel, OneNote, Powerpoint, Publisher, and even Access and Outlook — on both your main computer and your tablet.
Also good: that your files stored in OneDrive will be maintained by the same company that recently risked being held in contempt for refusing a court order to hand over a user’s email.
But wait! If you call now, in the next 20 minutes because they can’t do this all day, Microsoft has another bonus for you: 60 free minutes of calling with Skype! Sure, there are plenty of free calling options out there (like the new Hangouts dialer for Android) but if Microsoft wants to lob some free Skype minutes at you, well, you might as well make use of them.
So how does OneDrive stack up against the other big cloud storage apps now? Well, Dropbox charges $11/month for 1TB, but all you get is storage and sync. Google Drive is a better deal at $10 for 1TB, and Google’s apps are free to use… That’s not bad, but it’s also not unlimited*.
*Before we know how great a deal this really is, we need to know what Microsoft means by “unlimited,” because in the tech world it often means “not really unlimited.” We’ll update this post when we get an official statement.