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Dropbox crosses 100 million users, announces 100GB free contest

Dropbox, the cloud storage service, has crossed 100 million users, according to the company’s founder, Drew Houston. The achievement was announced in a blog post:“Once upon a time, Dropbox had its humble beginnings in a Boston train station when I forgot my USB stick at home. We’re still unsure if it was fate or fluke, but one thing’s stayed the same all these years: each of us has a unique reason for using Dropbox,” said Houston in the blog post.This is quite an achievement for the five-year old company, especially now when tech titans such as Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft are investing aggressively in the cloud storage space with their own offerings. Apple had recently announced that its iCloud service had 190 million users. Google has also started its Google Drive service which offers 5 GB of free space to Gmail users.Dropbox was under a spam attack earlier this year, which caused users to get spammed via email accounts. Speaking to New York Times, Houston assured users that his company had added additional features to prevent future discrepancies. According to Houston, users store more than 1 billion files in Dropbox every day and the number of users has quadrupled in the last year itself.To celebrate the 100 million landmark, Dropbox is inviting users to share their ‘Dropbox story’ and the top 10 favourite stories will get 100 GB storage space for life.

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About 63 percent of home PC users keen to upgrade to Windows 8: poll suggests

With the recent launch of Windows 8, which was followed up by the launch of Surface for Windows RT, and Windows Phone 8, the desktop, laptop, mobile, and tablet worlds have been shaken up dramatically. A lot has been said about Microsoft’s latest version of Windows, and its attempt to embrace both the desktop and tablet spaces in the market. Many have called the touch-optimized ‘Metro UI’ a useless gimmick for the desktop, while others scoff at the massive weight of full-fledged Windows 8 Pro tablet.You can read our full review of Windows 8 here, to get a better idea of just what is new, what works, and what doesn’t work. In the meanwhile, in the days accompanying the launch of Windows 8, we’d asked our readers whether they planned to upgrade to the new OS.We’ve received 2,475 responses since then, across our website, Facebook page, and newsletters. We thank our fans, readers and subscribers for taking the time out to share their views, and hope to see the same level of enthusiasm in the future.A total of 48 percent, or 1183 readers said they planned on upgrading to Windows 8. 15 percent, or 371 readers, said they already have. These figures would make Microsoft quite happy, as they imply a combined 63 percent of our fans and readers planned on upgrading, or had already upgraded to Windows 8.Of the remainder, 30 percent, or 755 users, chose the option “No, I'd rather stick to Windows 7.” This indicates a relatively large number is probably waiting to see just how good Windows 8 is, or waiting for launch bugs to be ironed out, or, just not sure of the value proposition of a new OS, when Windows 7 is serving them so well.Lastly, 7 percent, or 166 readers, said they don’t use Windows at all, indicating the percentage of sole Linux or Mac OS X users.

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