Moreover, SkyDrive is also used on Windows Phones to backup files and other settings. When Windows 8 was released, Microsoft did release a metro UI app for SkyDrive, but the amount of integration was less.
The preview version comes with quite a lot of new features and enhancements to existing features. One of the major change to Windows 8. The deeper integration of SkyDrive with Windows 8. SkyDrive is now an option during Windows set up and you can decide how you want the files in SkyDrive.
If you navigate to PC settings, you can find an option for SkyDrive. The main screen shows the amount of storage space available in your SkyDrive account and ability to buy new storage. Under the files settings, you can view details on how you want to manage your files to SkyDrive.
Although we could see our test invite. It is only within the Web-based version of SkyDrive that you get to share a link with others by right-clicking on a specific file. In one instance, it took us at least an hour before we could see the file on SkyDrive. There was a lot of head-scratching and face-palming with this one. It is much simpler to share a file as an online presentation, where you can get a copy of the temporary link without exiting the Office application.
Despite the effort to make the SkyDrive app and Desktop mode more unified in 8. To be fair, many of the hiccups we experienced while test-driving SkyDrive in 8. Using SkyDrive on Windows 8. What has your experience been like? Small file footprint has a downside One of the advantages of using SkyDrive in 8. Makes Office files sharable sort of Microsoft knows users need to be able to share their Office files with colleagues and friends easily to collaborate on projects and to give presentations, which is why Office now lets you save your Office files directly to SkyDrive.
This LG robot could soon be serving your restaurant meal. Behind the scenes, this syncing all used SkyDrive. However, it left the desktop behind.
The file-syncing desktop app had to be installed separately. With the desktop app installed in Windows 8 and below , SkyDrive offers the same kind of syncing and cloud storage that Dropbox and other services provide. Microsoft is more generous with the amount of free storage you get 7GB for SkyDrive, to 2GB for Dropbox, though Dropbox users can earn up to 18GB with referrals and other bonuses , but the experience is broadly similar regardless of which service you use.
This means that SkyDrive in Windows 8 suffers the same annoyance as these other services: what do you do when you don't want to sync all your files to a machine? There's a selective sync option, of course, but if you then want to use a file that's not in the synced set, you have to stop what you're doing and switch to the Web front-end to download them.
First of all, SkyDrive is a lot more prominent now, as it's exposed on the desktop by default. Explorer shows a SkyDrive folder. Libraries, the aggregated storage locations first introduced in Windows 7 , aggregate SkyDrive storage by default. The Documents library even uses the SkyDrive location as its default write location, so any file saved to the Documents library will automatically go on SkyDrive.
On the Metro side, SkyDrive is now integrated into the settings app. From here you can configure most of SkyDrive's behavior, including which settings are synced, which quality photos are uploaded, and whether to upload on connections that are billed per byte. The Settings app also lets you buy more storage. What is missing, both in the desktop and the Settings app, is control over selective sync.
But that's because of SkyDrive's new feature, which is magical. SkyDrive now shows all your files as if they had been synced locally.
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