Windows Live SkyDrive is a free service from Microsoft that gives you an impressive 25 gigabytes of cloud storage space on their servers. Folders and files can be private, shared with a group, or completely public.

The space alone makes this worth the sign-up. This service becomes truly Elite when you mount it on your PC as a virtual hard drive.

The Gladinet client allows you to mount cloud storage from SkyDrive (as well as from Amazon S3 and Google) as a virtual folder from within Windows Vista and XP.

The process is so simple that it doesn’t even require instructions. Just download & install it, enter your credentials, and then add your files.

Download the free Gladinet client here.