I just received a mail from the Messenger team, talking about skydrive.
Seems very interesting, it's supposed to be a krypted area where you store important things (a copy of your passport before traveling, who knows).
It's a great idea having copy of your important things. And, of course, 5 gigs storage is always someting interesting.
Have a look, it's here :
http://skydrive.live.com

Looks to me like any other free online storage solution. Haven't found anything really interesting to me. It's just another Microsoft's "we got to stick ourselves in here" type of deal.

xboxrulz

The only reason to use this is that you are already registered.

It's not bad, in IE the activex object can be really clever and fast.

I don't see much, or really anything significant that is different from other free online file hosts/backup places. The only reason one may want to use this is because most people have an MSN account (or windows live account, whatever it is called now). Aside from that, whilst 5 gigabytes of storage space is quite good, I don't like these online file hosting sites because they are slow and using a more traditinal method, such as burning files to a CD or DVD is easier, quicker, and less hasslesome.

Well I think it is a good idea... Pretty smart, too. But I would just be concerned with having really important files being kept in something like an MSN product. Not that it is terrible being MSN, but that it is known for fun messaging programs, and this is like security issued programming.

Of course, I think I may give it a try so that I can use it as a temporary storage site, but probably not anything really important with vital information involved. But I do like not having to send over disks, CDs, flashdrives and whatnot all of the time, and have the Internet up and running from laptop to desktop.

I see two major reasons.
the first one is the amount of space. 5 gigs is a big storage.
The second one is that this space is yours, and remains yours as long as you keep your account alive.
Most of other free online storage remove the hosted files, usually if they have not had enough downloads, or even after some inactivity time, or simply without reason. On skydrive there is no time-limit clause.
And they claim that traffic to your site is krypted, so it's difficult to steal your data.
And of course, a copy of your passport can be interesting for you if you loose your passport in a foreign country and will help you obtain a new one. It has no interest for somebody else. I see a lot of cases (my current report for my boss) where some info should not be lost, and being read by somebody else does not matter.