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With all of the hate towards Microsoft here i'm not really surprised of no mention of SkyDrive. It's working quite well for me. I never had any technical issues with Dropbox. I don't like their pricing model. The free account offers less space than my Gmail. The pro account offers way too much space for my use to even consider upgrading.

My other concern about Dropbox is that it took them weeks to figure out whether or not their system was compromised not long ago with the help of "outside experts." I don't know what to think of a company which hires others to figure out what's going on with their systems. That worries me a little.

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I don't think that HN particularly hates MS, it's just that few people here live inside the MS ecosystem. Google Drive is relevant to those who live in Google's cloud, Dropbox is relevant to all the Mac users I know. That's why these two will be mentioned a lot more often.

...and relevant to the Linux users, too.

Actually, Skydrive works pretty well on OS X too. I'm pleasantly impressed with it, to be honest.

That they hired outsiders is a sign of integrity to me. The cheap option would be a quick internal investigation and a statement of findings that people would be sceptical about. Outsiders bring new perspectives and experience.

SkyDrive fails if you have certain characters in filenames. Characters that are perfectly valid on OS X. When I tried SkyDrive I got 50+ warnings that files hadn't been synced because of the filenames.

If I was Windows only then I'd probably use SkyDrive, apart from the filename issue it worked quite well, much better than Google Drive.

Sky drive is not suitable for me because it currently lacks selective folder syncing. I actually have gigabytes of data in the service that I'd synced previously but I don't want/need all of it back on my laptop where I have limited storage.

Until this changes, the service is not particularly useful to me.

All software companies need external security consultants when you go beyond a certain level of of forensic analysis; unless you dedicate completely to that field it's unlikely anyone has in-house staff for that.

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