Announcing a milestone achievement for Microsoft's cloud file-sharing and storage platform SkyDrive, a recent blog post by group program manager Omar Shahine has revealed that service now plays host to over 1 billion documents.

According to PC Mag, SkyDrive reaching the `1 billion documents' landmark is a highly notable milestone, though its actual impact cannot be ascertained unless there is a disclosure about the number of documents hosted on key SkyDrive rivals like Google Drive or Dropbox.

Nonetheless, the announcement about the significant business landmark - that SkyDrive users store 1 billion Office docs in the cloud - has come in the wake of the launch of the Office 365 Home Premium.

With Shahine noting that Microsoft has witnessed a lot of user interest over SkyDrive's seamless integration for saving and sharing of docs, the company has divulged that the newly-released Office 365 Home Premium not only features extensive SkyDrive integration, but also gives the subscribers the advantage of an additional 20GB of cloud storage.

Given the fact that Microsoft has used the announcement of its SkyDrive milestone as a chance to implement a much-requested feature, it is becoming increasingly evident that the company is not just targeting Office users, especially since SkyDrive is a prominent feature on its Surface tablets and Windows 8 OS where it appears as one of the default save locations.