Microsoft Revamping SkyDrive 82
Windows 8 is drawing near, and with it comes tighter integration with Microsoft's cloud storage service SkyDrive. Because of its increased visibility, Microsoft is revamping SkyDrive to a more modern design, and is updating the SkyDrive apps for desktop PCs and Android devices.
"SkyDrive’s revamped home page embraces the same tile-based design aesthetic as Microsoft’s other new and upcoming products, including Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Microsoft previously referred to that aesthetic as 'Metro,' but plans on giving it a new name at an unannounced future point. ... SkyDrive users can flick for a more detailed view of files, including dates modified, sharing status, and size. In terms of features, there’s the ability to search within SkyDrive for pretty much any term, including content within Word and other Office documents. Microsoft has also shifted common commands (creating and sharing folders, for example) to the toolbar that runs along the top of the SkyDrive interface.
Re:Disgusting. (Score:2, Informative)
Parent post was perfectly articulate, you're just dumb.
Skydrive still useless compared to Dropbox (Score:5, Informative)
LAN Sync: with Skydrive if I move 50gigs of data into the shared folder of my iMac, my iMac uploads that 50gigs into the cloud over my DSL connection and then my Macbook downloads that 50gigs from the cloud over my DSL connection and then my old PowerMac downloads that 50gigs from the cloud over my DSL connection. Dropbox will just copy the 50gigs to the other machines over the gigabit ethernet they're all plugged in to since they're all in the same room.
Differential upload: with Skydrive if I change one byte in an 8gig DVD image then that 8gigs of data gets uploaded into the cloud. Dropbox uploads the one byte.
Get public link: right click on a file in Dropbox, get link for sharing with people. A killer feature that Skydrive just doesn't have.
Re:Disgusting. (Score:5, Informative)
okay. I will be that guy... the AC who explains something then gets ignored:
it is exposed as part of the FS. it is treated like a drive mounted under an NTS folder. it is named "Skydrive". with me so far? good.
it ALSO has an app. the app is really quite useful if you want to look at files on another machine that are not explicitly copied to sky. it is also nice for viewing stuff from the sky on another computer.
so, you are correct, both of you. they also did this. the app is nice for other reasons and makes things cute and ties the entire experience together.
consider it like this: just because you have an nfs mount, it does not mean there may not be reasons to use sftp or a webserver to move files to and from that mounted location.
thank you. please feel free to ignore this as AC posted it and it is not simply shaming MS for being 'dumb'.