SkyDrive Get a link feature Now With Bitly Support
I was not really a fan of Microsoft's online storage and management service SkyDrive a few years ago, as it could not really compete with services like Dropbox that I used at that time. In the recent past, Microsoft has improved SkyDrive significantly, starting with desktop synchronization clients to feature improvements like larger file uploads and the impressive 25 Gigabytes of free storage that it offered its users.
One of the smaller changes introduced by Microsoft was a sharing option. The idea behind it was to share uploads with a select number of contacts. Microsoft did integrate email sharing, and Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn posting into SkyDrive, to make the link sharing more comfortable to users of the service. A third option, get a link, was available as well which generated view only, or view and edit, links for selected documents.
Many users ran into issues with those links, as they were on the long sides of things. They did not fit into a Twitter post for instance, and made the link look messy and for some even suspicious.
Today, Microsoft is introducing an update to SkyDrive's Get a link feature. The Redmond company has teamed up with Bitly to provide SkyDrive users with options to create shortened links directly from within the Skydrive app. For that purpose, Microsoft registered the new domain http://sdrv.ms which all shortened urls will use that have been created on SkyDrive.
With Bitly come statistics for shared links, which you can access by adding + to the end of the short url. This can be interesting for some purposes, for instance when a link has been made publicly available on a website to look up the files accessibility statistics.
The standard links that SkyDrive generates natively when the get a link feature is accessed have been shortened by 40% as well, making them more accessible in return. While still too long for my liking, it marks a step in the right direction. All links support Facebook's OpenGraph technology, so that link previews are automatically shown when links are pasted on Facebook.
Microsoft's decision to integrate SkyDrive into Windows 8 seems to fuel much of the development at this point in time. We expect Microsoft to release additional feature improvements and new features in the not so distant future. (via)
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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.