SkyDrive: new Timeline view and improved photo upload performance
Microsoft just announced that it is rolling out a SkyDrive update at the moment that is updating the all photos section on the SkyDrive website. Previously, all photos that you uploaded to the service were more or less lumped together on the all photos page making it quite difficult to find specific photos stored at the file hosting service.
The update changes the view mode on the all photos page to a new timeline view that is automatically sorting photos based on the date and time they have been taken. The company notes that photos are sorted into groups by event and time in the new view so that same-day photos of different events are now automatically sorted into different groups.
Take 20 pictures at a birthday party with your phone, and then a photo of your parking spot at the airport a few hours later? Now they'll appear as two different groups in the timeline.
As you can see on the screenshot above, photos are now sorted by date and time on the All Photos page on SkyDrive. One interesting option made available here is the year and month view that you can use to quickly jump to a specific month and year to browse all photos taken in it.
The feature looks similar to what Dropbox is offering on its website. Dropbox is sorting photo uploads by month on the site, while Microsoft narrows the sorting down to month, day and time instead. And the photo viewer on Google Plus? Also not that different.
So, Microsoft is closing the gap and maybe improving it a little bit in regards to the recent update.
Photos can now also be viewed as a slideshow or in a filmstrip mode where one image is displayed on the screen and others as thumbnails at the bottom of that page. Here you also find information about the photo listed on the right side of the page.
Changes are also being made to PowerPoint and Word documents that you have uploaded to SkyDrive. They are now shown in a new layout and with thumbnails as well on the website.
SkyDrive desktop users benefit from faster photo upload speeds from desktop applications. Microsoft states that improvements made to the client and server code have resulted in upload speed improvements of two to three times.
Tips:
- To run a slideshow select a photo in a folder or by date by clicking on it. You are taken to the photo viewer. Here you can select Play Slide Show from the menu at the top. Slideshows are displayed in fill screen mode.
- Windows phone users can upload full-resolution photos to SkyDrive which is a complete backup option of sorts.
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.