Getting a few gig's worth of space for freebie online storage these days is not a big deal for most people. After all, Gmail offers 7.2GB of freebie email space currently (which many people use as storage only), so a few gigs is barely worth noticing.However, when it's 25, you do sit up and take notice. That's just a tick over five 4.7GB DVD's worth of storage. Think about that for a moment. 25GB is a lot of space.And SkyDrive has it right now.Not bad for free, eh?But hooooold everything.. is Google's GDrive going to really happen? It most likely will.At this point, the battle of freebie online storage is between Microsoft and Google. XDrive is gone and Box.net only offer 1GB for free. As far as I know there are no other major players.And by the way, this is a strong indicator that future operating systems may in fact require internet connectivity just to run (with that kind of space, OS system files could very easily be put there). I'm personally not in favor of that, but who knows...- - EDIT - -A commenter pointed out there is ADrive which offers 50GB for free, so I'm including that in the mix. Be sure to check that site out too. The "premium" paid version does offer some really nice goodies (such as a desktop client).