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Thanks, did not know this existed. On further digging around, I see that Office Web Apps are coming soon. Looks like Microsoft is pushing back hard against its competitors.

The SkyDrive still needs a native client to be as useful as DropBox, but it's a step in the right direction.

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I'm actually surprised that Microsoft has not yet made a "skydrive" drive in explorer that natively and seamlessly integrated with this service.

From a perception standpoint, I hesitate to use this because it seems that MS doesn't yet have full faith in this service.

Skydrive explorer [http://skydriveexplorer.com/index.php] offers integration with Windows Explorer

Thanks for the link. I also went out and found this one

http://www.gladinet.com/

which offers mountings for google docs, picasa and a bunch of others...

You probably want Windows Live Mesh if that's why you're looking for.

It's like Dropbox, but a bit more complicated/flexible, has more free storage, can sync any folder on your system, does p2p syncing, works through firewalls without configuration, etc.

Nice find, it's interesting that MS has all of these cloud storage and syncing solutions and no home-rolled OS integration and virtually no buzz or visibility.

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