{"id":24740,"date":"2012-04-25T18:12:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=24740"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:50:18","slug":"how-to-get-25gb-free-cloud-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-get-25gb-free-cloud-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get 25GB free cloud storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24748\" title=\"skydrive-02-100x100\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/04\/skydrive-02-100x100.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>If you haven&#8217;t claimed it yet, you can get 25GB of free <a href=\"http:\/\/windows-live-skydrive.en.softonic.com\/web-apps\"><strong>SkyDrive<\/strong><\/a> cloud storage from Microsoft simply by logging into your <strong>Hotmail account<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As long as you&#8217;ve used SkyDrive at least once since you opened your Hotmail account, you should be entitled to a free upgrade.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Here&#8217;s how:<\/p>\n<p>1. Log into your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotmail.com\">Hotmail account<\/a> and click on SkyDrive at the top of the screen. Click on the &#8220;SkyDrive&#8217;s free storage is changing &#8211; claim your free 25GB&#8221; message:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24742\" title=\"SkyDrive 1\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/04\/SkyDrive1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/04\/SkyDrive1.jpg 599w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/04\/SkyDrive1-300x69.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/>2. Click on &#8220;Free Upgrade&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24743\" title=\"skydrive2\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/04\/skydrive2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/04\/skydrive2.jpg 771w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/04\/skydrive2-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. You&#8217;re done!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24744\" title=\"Skydrive4\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/04\/Skydrive4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/04\/Skydrive4.jpg 430w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/04\/Skydrive4-300x119.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/>4. You should then see your newly credited 25GB account status:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24745\" title=\"SkyDrive5\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/04\/SkyDrive5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/04\/SkyDrive5.jpg 772w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/04\/SkyDrive5-300x64.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t claimed it yet, you can get 25GB of free SkyDrive cloud storage from Microsoft simply by logging into your Hotmail account. As long as you&#8217;ve used SkyDrive at least once since you opened your Hotmail account, you should be entitled to a free upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-24740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333833,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24740\/revisions\/333833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24740"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=24740"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=24740"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=24740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}