Cloud storage has become an inevitable aspect for almost every individual. Considering the fact that there are various options available these day, it's pretty tedious to decide which option is best.
After analyzing both the cloud services for quite a while, an honest opinion is that, you can't really zero in to one as the best service. Let's compare Google Drive vs Microsoft's Skydrive here.
To compare both the services, I have considered 3 yardsticks to measure the accountability of each.
Editing:
When we start storing documents in cloud, we don't just store and share but we do consider editing them and expect it to hassle-free and non-tedious process. Google Drive and Microsoft's Skydrive both obviously provide the option of editing the documents. But Skydrive allows editing in the native format of the document but Drive expects you to convert the document to convert it into an intermediate format and then edit it. Since, Microsoft office is a clean solution for office uses, Skydrive provides a clean solution.
In my opinion Microsoft's Skydrive takes a top notch edge over Google Drive
Accessibility:
Accessibility is another important aspect which expect out of a cloud storage system. Both Google and Microsoft provide excellent options to share files. Google includes Drive perfectly to fit in its already existing strong ecosystem. Files sharing is extremely easy to friends and other who have a google account and use any other their product. However, editing can be possible only when the files is in Google format. Skydrive, allows you to share files with anyone even with someone who doesn't have a Skydrive account and editing can be done in a very intuitive manner.
Skydirve again scores over Google Drive
Syncing with Desktop Apps:
Drive and Skydrive have separate apps which would enable syncing with the cloud, however, Drive provides the ability to sync based on the folder that you would like to sync which is not available in Skydrive
Besides that, Skydrive offers only 7GB of memory to its new users but Google offer 15 GB to its new users.
Points to Google Drive in this segment
Microsoft Skydrive scores 2-1 over Google Drive and is a definite WIN "especially" for people who make a living doing presentations and compiling documents.
Though Box and Dropbox has developed a huge fan following with the unique features, Skydrive is still worth a try. As a matter of fact having an additional free cloud-storage is always a benefit.
After analyzing both the cloud services for quite a while, an honest opinion is that, you can't really zero in to one as the best service. Let's compare Google Drive vs Microsoft's Skydrive here.
To compare both the services, I have considered 3 yardsticks to measure the accountability of each.
Editing:
When we start storing documents in cloud, we don't just store and share but we do consider editing them and expect it to hassle-free and non-tedious process. Google Drive and Microsoft's Skydrive both obviously provide the option of editing the documents. But Skydrive allows editing in the native format of the document but Drive expects you to convert the document to convert it into an intermediate format and then edit it. Since, Microsoft office is a clean solution for office uses, Skydrive provides a clean solution.
In my opinion Microsoft's Skydrive takes a top notch edge over Google Drive
Accessibility:
Accessibility is another important aspect which expect out of a cloud storage system. Both Google and Microsoft provide excellent options to share files. Google includes Drive perfectly to fit in its already existing strong ecosystem. Files sharing is extremely easy to friends and other who have a google account and use any other their product. However, editing can be possible only when the files is in Google format. Skydrive, allows you to share files with anyone even with someone who doesn't have a Skydrive account and editing can be done in a very intuitive manner.
Skydirve again scores over Google Drive
Syncing with Desktop Apps:
Drive and Skydrive have separate apps which would enable syncing with the cloud, however, Drive provides the ability to sync based on the folder that you would like to sync which is not available in Skydrive
Besides that, Skydrive offers only 7GB of memory to its new users but Google offer 15 GB to its new users.
Points to Google Drive in this segment
Microsoft Skydrive scores 2-1 over Google Drive and is a definite WIN "especially" for people who make a living doing presentations and compiling documents.
Though Box and Dropbox has developed a huge fan following with the unique features, Skydrive is still worth a try. As a matter of fact having an additional free cloud-storage is always a benefit.
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