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we're announcing today is the onedrive service which is one place for you to store all your documents and photos and the files you care about the memories you keep track of every day okay all ready one two three two-thirds of people who have a mobile phone all their photos just stay on their phone and they never go anywhere really I mean they text them to people but they're not backed up and if they lose their phone their photos are gone so I got onedrive on my iPad here and you can see there's the same camera roll showing up and then we'll go and grab all those photos and they were those photos that I took right there iCloud doesn't work on your Android phones if you have that and it doesn't go back to your Windows PC and put all your photos there but one drives really designed for all your devices so if you have an iPhone you take those pictures you can put them into onedrive and then there on your Mac with onedrive for Mac if you switch to an Android phone those photos stay with you you switch to a Windows PC or Windows Phone so they follow you for your life in the area of documents it's our connection with Microsoft Office which people use so right in office you save right to onedrive you can open from onedrive you can use office on your phone and get to your onedrive all my documents are up there these are my personal documents and then I have a nice folder for my work documents so really it's that connection that makes the big difference for our service relative to other offerings like Google Drive or Dropbox or box the Xbox scenario is super cool it's the you know if you're playing a game and you end up being a great in the game like you've killed your big enemy you can actually take the last 30 seconds of that and upload it to onedrive and then share with your friends so they can participate in that moment five or ten years from now if you say I lost a file people your kids are gonna look at you like you're funny because why would you ever have a world where you lost anything when you lost a device it's all in the cloud the onedrive service comes with seven gigabytes for free we're announcing a couple things as part of this release one if you hook up your camera roll on your phone you're getting another three gigabytes we know how big those phone photos are in the end our job is to build tools that put the customer and control their data not us we're providing a service that helps the customer be in control