I love Skydrive. It's the best of Dropbox combined with the best of Google Docs (even better, you get to use Office), and it all works so seamlessly I forget that I'm even using it. Maybe that's why nobody's talking about it, because it's not causing us any pain. Not to mention, it's decently cheaper than the other options and is well-integrated into all the devices I tend to use. The only pain point I still have (and nobody has solved this) is that both my wife and I have Live accounts, and we'd like to have a shared quota, with some private folders. For now we just log into the same account until a better solution is available.
I'm not using it to store racy pictures or my social security numbers, so I'm not too concerned with privacy implications; there's no privacy to be had online anyway. But given it integrates seamlessly with Office, OneNote, iOS (mostly), Windows, Android, Xbox, and the web, I have nothing to complain about. Like I said, it works so well I forget I'm even paying for it, which is the best kind of service.
> The only pain point I still have (and nobody has solved this) is that both my wife and I have Live accounts, and we'd like to have a shared quota, with some private folders. For now we just log into the same account until a better solution is available.
Can you clarify what your need is? If you share a folder (with edit permissions) with your wife's Microsoft account, she can simply edit the contents of the folder directly. I understand that doesn't give you a shared quota, but I'm not clear why that's necessary. Presumably you're not worried about your wife abusing your space, since you're currently just sharing the account, and also since you married her. If you just need more space, the expanded storage plans for SkyDrive are extremely cheap.
You could also create a group and use that to share with her. The group would get its own separate quota. I frankly haven't used groups much because I don't have a need for them, but I think they would be pretty much what you're asking for. It won't sync locally, though, if that's something you need.
Local sync is of course the main need, and why we can't currently go the sharing route. Without sync, Skydrive is largely useless. For now, logging into the same account is ok. However, with Windows 8 tying into the live ID, it would be better if we each had our own separate logins, but had "family share" folders, for things like family documents and pictures. You can do that now, but the folders wouldn't sync.
Nobody has solved the "family sync" problem yet. Give me separate accounts for each member, but have a shared space that everyone accesses, with local sync, and the ability to manage some sort of shared quota system (I don't want to have to pay for 3 accounts x 50GB, would rather pay once for 100GB allocated my own way). Especially when you tie such a system to Xbox live, you can start to see how a family-based cloud approach would be a killer app.
I'm not using it to store racy pictures or my social security numbers, so I'm not too concerned with privacy implications; there's no privacy to be had online anyway. But given it integrates seamlessly with Office, OneNote, iOS (mostly), Windows, Android, Xbox, and the web, I have nothing to complain about. Like I said, it works so well I forget I'm even paying for it, which is the best kind of service.