Appendix C. OneDrive and other cloud services

OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud-based file-storage service, is a crucial part of the Windows 10 experience. Every free Microsoft account starts with 15 GB of OneDrive storage. You can expand that storage with paid upgrades to OneDrive or get a massively increased cloud storage allotment with an Office 365 Home or Personal subscription.

That consumer version of OneDrive is separate from OneDrive for Business, which is associated with Office 365 Business and Enterprise subscriptions.

When we began planning this book, a year before Windows 10 was released to the public, we gave OneDrive its own chapter. In that chapter, we planned to explain how to store, sync, and share files between a Windows 10 device ...

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