I think that is a load of toss.

Sure there are dedicated clients for Windows, but you can access the entire of their "cloud offerings" via the web and some rather nifty APIs.

Ultimately my point is that it is no different to any other "cloud" provider out there.

You can also quite happily create a word doc on skydrive from a web browser. You can even mount a skydrive volume on Linux as it's just a WebDAV share as well.

Microsoft aren't the same company these days.

Check this out:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd208104(v=prot.10)....