We all love free online storage and there's plenty of offer from Microsoft SkyDrive if you were signed up before April 22. Eligible users (and thankfully I was one of them) can upgrade their accounts to a whopping 25GB for no cost.

Granted, it's unlikely to supplant Dropbox as I need Linux support, but SkyDrive is a handy way of backing up photos directly from Windows Live Photo Gallery.

According to the offical announcement, this is a time limited offer but there's no mention of when it finishes so there's no reason to delay. Sign in and click on the option to Manage your storage. I was presented with a button to upgrade. It was that simple.

CES 2012 rumbles on, but I'm just about to board a plane back to the UK. So with my time in Las Vegas coming to an end, who are the winners and losers of the show?

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A lot of people I spoke to today seemed comprehensively underwhelmed by the supposed cutting-edge of consumer electronics. There's noise, there's hoards of inquisitive, pawing attendees and there's a whole lot of walking around, but...

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Yet another email containing a fake Microsoft security patch is doing the rounds.

The software giant does not send updates this way and any should be downloaded via the company's website or people should have their automatic updates on.

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Overnight (for those of us in Europe and Asia) Microsoft gave out the first details on the next version of its Windows operating system, Windows 8.

At the D9 conference in California, Microsoft's Windows head honcho Steven Sinofsky gave a demonstration of how Windows 8 will look and feel.

'Feel' is the operative word. The new edition is designed completely for touch-screens, which makes sense of the company's earlier announcements that it would be making the operating system available on the ARM processors commonly used on tablet computers as well as the AMD/Intel chips of desktops and laptops.

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Microsoft is so desperate to get a grip on the consumer market that it has just chucked out $8.5bn (£5.2bn) on a company that struggles to make a profit. Whatever Microsoft does with Skype, I can't see it succeeding.

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