Google and Microsoft revealed in their recent cloud-related announcements that they have made some noteworthy improvements to their respective cloud offerings - Drive and SkyDrive.

Google announced on Monday that storage limits for Gmail and Google Drive have now been unified by the company, in an attempt to give the users free storage of up to 15GB across both the products.

The move implies that the virtual cloud storage used by Gmail, Drive, and Google+ Photos will be clubbed together, so that users, who thus far had 10GB storage limit on Gmail and 5GB limit on Drive and Google+ Photos, will now get an overall storage of 15GB.

Meanwhile, the improvements which Microsoft has announced for SkyDrive will chiefly facilitate the users in uploading as well as managing photos in the cloud. Among the improvements is an "all photos view" which gives the user the ability to scroll through all their stored photos in one seamless timeline experience, up to three-fold faster upload speeds, and enhanced thumbnails.

In addition, Microsoft also said that SkyDrive will henceforth support full resolution uploads of photos and videos in all Windows Phone 8 markets. As such, owners of Windows Phone 8 devices can have a complete backup of all the photos captured in their SkyDrive camera roll.

About the roll out of the change to the users, Google said that it will put the `improved Drive' move in place over the next few weeks; while Microsoft said that it will roll out the changes made to SkyDrive over the next 24 hours.