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A virtual private network (VPN) is a network that connects a remote PC — your laptop beside the pool in Shanghai — to a central network elsewhere, like your employer's secure network back home.

In Windows 8 Microsoft will merge its free online storage service SkyDrive and syncing software Mesh to provide the backbone for what looks to be a service that will rival or beat iCloud.

Includes automatic synchronisation and ‘private cloud’