Windows Phone 8 owners received a special holiday gift via email from Microsoft. They received a link to activate an extra 20 GB of cloud storage for their phones. Owners must sign up by the end of January 21014. The extra storage is not permanent but is active for a full year.
After losing a trademark court case to BSkyB, Microsoft is expected to rebrand the SkyDrive name (Whittaker, 2013). Microsoft started to use the SkyDrive name in 2007.
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