Window Live SkyDrive allows you to store up to 5gb of photos, music, documents and other file types on the Internet. The SkyDrive team have also recently announced that storage will be increased to 25gb very soon.

The advantage of SkyDrive is that you can access your files from anywhere in the world and they are stored securely. If you want to share your files with others, you can do, you can even share them publicly. For website owners this can dramatically reduce your bandwidth costs as you can embed and link to images, files and other media easily.

Windows Live SkyDrive proves useful on a day-to-day basis when going to meetings for storing presentations and sharing images with families and friends.

Visit the Windows Live SkyDrive blog for more information.

Here are out top 5 Microsoft Word shortcuts:

• Ctrl+A - Selects all of the content in the document
• Ctrl+X - Cuts the selected part of the document
• Ctrl+C - Copies the selected part of the document
• Ctrl+V - Pastes the selected part of the document
• Ctrl+Z - Undo the last operation

There are many ways of resizing rows in Microsoft Excel, we run through just a few of the easiest in this quick tutorial.

To resize a row simply drag the rows bottom border down to make the row as high as you like. Alternatively you can double click on the bottom border, this will resize the height of the row so that it includes all of the data in that row.

To resize a column you can either drag the right-hand border to make the column as wide as you want or you can double click on the right-hand border to let Excel automatically resize your column to fit in all of the data.

Sorting data in Microsoft Excel is simple. There are several ways of sorting data so we’ve put together this short tutorial to help you.

To sort one column in ascending/descending order. Highlight the column you’d like to sort by and press the ascending or descending button from the data menu (see the picture below).

The other option is to sort data by several rows for example, date then customer’s first name. To sort your data in this way you should highlight the data you wish to sort and press the sort button this then lets you choose your sorting preferences (see the picture below).

Windows Server 2008 R2 was shown off at the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) in LA. The first major change is that R2 brings is it’s the first 64-bit only Windows platform. There are also improvements to Windows Servers core pillars. Virtualisation has come on and has a great Live Migration feature which allows physical host migrations of virtual machines in little time. Streamlined management has also been enhanced with better user interfaces, an active directory domain service management console and enhanced group policy. Web server has better PowerShell management support and now has support for technologies including SilverLight and PHP. Another huge addition in R2 is DirectAccess which allows remote computing to become even more invisible to users. DA will allow users to connect to any network and see their network resources securely and without the need for VPN.