MS Treats WP Owners With Extra 20GB of Free SkyDrive Storage for One Year

[Turk]

Microsoft has just sent out an email to select Windows Phone owners, giving them an extra 20GB of free SkyDrive storage for one year - effectively bumping the standard 7GB of space to 27GB of storage space. Microsoft makes mention of this gift being for "Windows Phone Enthusiast Users."

"To show our appreciation of Windows Phone customers, we are giving you an extra 20 GB of free SkyDrive storage for one year. This is in addition to the 7 GB of free SkyDrive storage that all customers currently have," Microsoft stated in an email. We got ahold of this email, as you can see from the image above.

Upon clicking the redemption link in the email, Microsoft will give you an additional 20GB of SkyDrive storage that will expire after one year. No word on how this will affect your files if you do in-fact rack up 20GB of data on SkyDrive.

"A great way of using this extra storage is to automatically back up the photos and videos you take on your phone. When your photos or files are on SkyDrive, you can still get to them if something happens to your phone," Microsoft recommends in the email.

Is everyone getting this extra SkyDrive storage? Who qualifies as an "enthusiast user?" We're reached out to Microsoft for a statement on the matter and will update you when we get some answers. In the mean time, check your email inbox and let us know if you got the same email too.

http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-treats-windows-phone-owners-extra-20gb-free-skydrive-storage-one-year

Comment: I have just got same email and I redeemed it, though never use Skydrive.

Edited December 21, 2013 by Turk

[janedoe]

200GB SkyDrive storage free with the Surface, 100GB from BUILD, 20GB with Office 365 on top of 25GB I had due to my old account, and now 20GB more, so 365GB total. Nice! :D