Good news for anyone with a Microsoft email address – Hotmail,, or – you already have a OneDrive account! This is the digital equivalent of “what would you save if your house was on fire?” – what would you miss if your computer broke or your hard drive was wiped? Make sure to have them backed up on a cloud storage service, even if you also have something like an external hard drive backing up your system regularly. Thirdly, cloud services like OneDrive can be used as a backup service for important files. Media, in particular, can be quite hefty in terms of how much storage space it takes up, so using the cloud for that is quite handy. Personally, we use it for documents we don’t need to access very frequently (15-year-old dissertation, anyone?), photos and videos. One is space-saving – you can offload some documents to the cloud in order to free up space on your main computer, smartphone or tablet. This means that you can access them from anywhere, not just your normal computer or phone, providing you have an internet connection.

Like other cloud storage services such as Apple’s iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, and SugarSync, it allows you to store files such as documents, photos and videos online. OneDrive is a cloud storage service available to anyone with a Microsoft account (more on that in a moment). Kaspersky extends Office 365 protections to OneDrive Users told to ditch OneDrive and Office 365 to avoid 'covert' data harvesting Google Drive vs Microsoft OneDrive head-to-head review What is OneDrive?

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