Comparison of pro's con's between Microsoft's SkyDrive and Dropbox?

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Published on 2010-04-19T17:27:39Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 17:34 UTC
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What are relative advantages of SkyDrive vs. Dropbox?

The most obvious is Storage: Skydrive is 25GB, Dropbox is 2GB (for the free version)

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