Windows Live SkyDrive gives you 25Gb of free online storage, but you need a personal dwarf to upload the files for you

It's been years since I last logged into my Windows Live account. Yesterday, I was browsing some tech news and was interested to learn more about SkyDrive, a service from Microsoft's cloud offering that supposedly offers 25Gb of free online storage.

At first I thought: wow, for a long time in years Microsoft seems to be ahead of the competition! Being used to seeing strong players such as Dropbox and Mozy offer 2Gb for free, Microsoft's offer seemed very compelling. Boy, I was so wrong.

I logged into my MSN account (now called Windows Live) to test it out, and quickly realized that the only way to upload files (even your photos) is by selecting them manually 1 by 1! And, by the way, maximum size per file is 50 Mb, in case you were considering it as a backup for your videos.

I really wish someday Microsoft will demonstrate better skills to create a better experience for their web users. I might wait another 5 years to check again if they learned something from the other companies that gets how the web works.