SkyDrive Gets ODF Support, More Features Ahead of Google Drive Launch
Days before Google's official entry in the cloud hosting space (see Google Drive announcement here) comes Microsoft's announcement that they have improved their cloud hosting service SkyDrive. The service now supports file uploads of up to 300 Megabyte in the web browser (2 Gigabyte syncing from the desktop, at least under Windows 8), as well as the Open Document Format, short url support for Windows Phone images shared to Twitter, and sharing to Twitter.
The SkyDrive team furthermore made the announcement that they have big things coming soon to the service. It is not really clear what's meant by that. If you look at the feature set, one would expect operating system integration to be one of the top priorities of the team, as it is one of the features that SkyDrive lags in comparison to services such as Dropbox or SugarSync.
While it is possible to connect to SkyDrive on the desktop with the help of tools such as Gladinet, a first party solution would surely provide Microsoft with extra momentum to compete on an eye to eye level with Google and Google Drive in this regard.
We do know that Microsoft plans to integrate SkyDrive into the upcoming operating system Windows 8. While that would satisfy customers running that operating system, exclusivity would at the same time mean that the majority of SkyDrive customers would not be able to make use of the feature on their system.If Microsoft wants to compete with Google when it comes to desktop integration, SkyDrive needs to support at least the operating systems that Google Drive supports.
Microsoft has the advantage over Google Drive in other regards at the moment. With Google Drive launching with 5 Gigabytes of free space, SkyDrive users get five times as much. It is also likely that Office users will favor SkyDrive over Google Docs thanks to the integration of Office Web in SkyDrive.
With Google Drive launching, and great services like Dropbox and SkyDrive available, it is likely that we will be seeing some movement in this vertical. What's your favorite cloud hosting service right now, and why? And where will you be hosting your files online in a year's time? (via Caschy, via SkyDrive)
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Are these articles AI generated?
Now the duplicates are more obvious.
This is below AI generated crap. It is copy of Microsoft Help website article without any relevant supporting text. Anyway you can find this information on many pages.
Yes, but why post the exact same article under a different title twice on the same day (19 march 2023), by two different writers?
1.) Excel Keyboard Shortcuts by Trevor Monteiro.
2.) 70+ Excel Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows by Priyanka Monteiro
Why oh why?
Yeah. Tell me more about “Priyanka Monteiro”. I’m dying to know. Indian-Portuguese bot ?
Probably they will announce that the taskbar will be placed at top, right or left, at your will.
Special event by they is a special crap for us.
If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
Better brands at better prices elsewhere.
All new articles have zero count comments. :S
WTF? So, If I add one photo to 5 albums, will it count 5x on my storage?
It does not make any sense… on google photos, we can add photo to multiple albums, and it does not generate any additional space usage
I have O365 until end of this year, mostly for onedrive and probably will jump into google one
Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.
What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?
Sounds exactly like the poor coding Microsoft is known for in non-critical areas i.e. non Windows Core/Office Core.
I imagine a manager gave an employee the task to create the album feature with hardly any time so they just copied the folder feature with some cosmetic changes.
And now that they discovered what poor management results in do they go back and do the album feature properly?
Nope, just charge the customer twice.
Sounds like a go-getter that needs to be promoted for increasing sales and managing underlings “efficiently”, said the next layer of middle management.
When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?
Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.
For me this is proof that Microsoft has a back-door option into all accounts in their cloud.
quote “…… as the MSA key allowed the hacker group access to virtually any cloud account at Microsoft…..”
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so this MSA key which is available to MS officers can give access to all accounts in MS cloud.This is the backdoor that MS has into the cloud accounts. Lucky I never got any relevant files of mine in their (MS) cloud.
>”Now You: what is your theory?”
That someone handed an employee a briefcase full of cash and the employee allowed them access to all their accounts and systems.
Anything that requires 5-10 different coincidences to happen is highly unlikely. Occam’s razor.
Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.
The GAFAM are always very careless about our software automatically sending to them telemetry and crash dumps in our backs. It’s a reminder not to send them anything when it’s possible to opt out, and not to opt in, considering what they may contain. And there is irony in this carelessness biting them back, even if in that case they show that they are much more cautious when it’s their own data that is at stake.