Bear in your mind I'm a serious Windows 7 user.

Windows SkyDrive is built in to the new OS. This would big news when office standard 2010 first told the world this before the 2010 Mobile World Congress smartphone convention in Barcelona. Now MS says every new user will get a free Microsoft Account with 7GB of storage space in SkyDrive. That isn't much space, though. But it is free, secure along with a begin in the right direction.

I'm betting, given previous experience, that Microsoft increases that limit to incentivize folks to obtain off Windows 7 and onto 8. Anyone with a complete Dropbox knows what a pain it is to nickel and dime your way to more remote cloud storage.

Takeaway: This gallery of buy windows 7 features is my analysis of the items you need to see before you buy or even try and buy. To date, Windows 8 has been working great for me and the leaps in training everyone is complaining about iexcl;sect;C becoming accustomed to the new UI to be the top complain iexcl;sect;C just aren't fazing me. Maybe you'll feel differently.

Also, keep in mind I'm a serious cheap software online user. After by using their stable OS for so long, it will likely be a hardship on a lot of folks to switch. My advice: Instead of upgrade, wait to get your new OS next time you purchase a computer.

That's just good advice for any operating system upgrade iexcl;sect;C if you would like it easily and seamlessly. More adventurous folk should just partition a place on the hard disk drive and begin trying it out now. Trial developer and beta versions can be found.