Microsoft SkyDrive got updated with a new logo and an improved client for Windows desktop. The new update offers better performance, reliability, and compatibility with a brand new status window which displays the last Sync time and other relevant Sync statistics.

With recently released Google Drive and existing free online storage and synching solutions like Dropbox and SugarSync, there is more to cheer about. Microsoft's own cloud file-syncing solution "SkyDrive" now have a native Windows client, with release of this the service now have native clients on Windows, Mac, Windows Phone and iOS platforms.

Sadly, Microsoft SkyDrive is now offering only 7GB free storage space but if you act in-time and use the trick detailed after the jump you can upgrade to 25 GB online-storage for free.