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Outlook.com hits 10 million users, Skydrive gets updated

by admin on August 14, 2012 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Outlook.com hits 10 million users, Skydrive gets updated

Since we launched the Outlook.com preview two weeks ago, we have been truly humbled by the reception. We’ve received hundreds of great comments, participated in thousands of threads on @reddit, @gizmodo, @neowin and are excited to share that, as of today, more than 10 million people have signed up and started using Outlook.com.

Today, we’re updating SkyDrive with a new, more modern web design, refined SkyDrive apps for PCs and Macs, a new SkyDrive app for Android devices, and improved developer offerings. While there’s always more to do to improve our products, these updates bring SkyDrive out of preview and ready for a billion users – in time for the upcoming releases of Windows 8, the new Outlook.com, and the new Office.

Read More – http://windowsteamblog.com/skydrive/b/skydrive/archive/2012/08/14/a-new-modern-skydrive-com-updated-apps-and-outlook-com-at-10-million-users.aspx

Skydrive gets the Metro treatment

by admin on August 1, 2012 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Skydrive gets the Metro treatment

Microsoft not only rolled out Outlook.com today but they have also updated SkyDrive to bring it to visual parity of the company’s other properties. The UI change is a dramatic, but familiar, overhaul of the service and none of the core functionality has changed. 

You can see the changes in the images above (and below) but in terms of new features, this appears to mostly be a re-skinning of the cloud service. With the new UI comes a few tweaks to the menu layouts but when compared to the overhaul that Outlook.com received, this is a minor update for the SkyDrive service.

Read More – http://www.neowin.net/news/skydrive-gets-the-metro-treatment-new-ui-rolling-out

SkyDrive adds app-centric sharing for Office, HTML5 upload and more

by admin on November 30, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on SkyDrive adds app-centric sharing for Office, HTML5 upload and more

In a posting on the Windows Live Blog, the team have announced a bumper update to the SkyDrive service that will start to roll out to end-users in the next couple of hours.

One of the new features is adding more options for sharing files. The new SkyDrive allows people to share items simply by putting in a person’s email address from your address book, including your lists from Facebook, LinkedIn and others. You can also create a URL link to your SkyDrive files that could be set to private viewing only, viewing and editing if you want the person to edit that item or a Public link that let’s everyone check out that file.

How to map SkyDrive to a network drive

by admin on June 23, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on How to map SkyDrive to a network drive

Tip of the day based on the recent SkyDrive update.

  • In IE go to http://skydrive.live.com/ and login using your Live ID
  • Go to SkyDrive -> My Files and note the CID in the browser
  • In Windows 7 open Windows Explorer, and select Map Network Drive
  • Enter the following \\docs.live.net@SSL\XXXXX (replace XXXXX with CID from above)

Introducing SkyDrive for the modern web

by admin on June 21, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Introducing SkyDrive for the modern web

As officials have been hinting in recent weeks, Microsoft has relaunched and updated its Windows Live SkyDrive cloud storage service.

Microsoft is altering the SkyDrive user interface so that it is easier and quicker for users to see exactly what they’ve stored and how to access their files, photos and documents.

Link – http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2011/06/20/introducing-skydrive-for-the-modern-web-built-using-html5.aspx

Office is now live on SkyDrive!

by admin on June 8, 2010 in Uncategorised with Comments Off on Office is now live on SkyDrive!

Over the last few months, we’ve gotten incredible feedback from the hundreds of thousands of users in our Office Web Apps Technical Preview.  We’ve been busy incorporating much of that feedback, and today, Office Web Apps on SkyDrive are now available to everyone in the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. We’ll have more to share next week when Office 2010 is released to consumers, including how Office 2010 + SkyDrive + Office Web Apps give you the best productivity experience across the PC, phone, and browser.

Link  – http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/06/07/office-is-now-live-on-skydrive.aspx

Your Office Live Workspace is soon upgrading to Windows Live SkyDrive

by admin on May 15, 2010 in Uncategorised with Comments Off on Your Office Live Workspace is soon upgrading to Windows Live SkyDrive

Your Office Live Workspace account will soon be upgraded to become a Windows Live SkyDrive account.

In an effort to improve and simplify the customer experience for our Live services, we’ve made the decision to integrate Office Live Workspace with Windows Live SkyDrive into one set of services.

Link – http://ask.officelive.com/workspace/blogs/workspace_team/archive/2010/05/12/your-office-live-workspace-is-soon-upgrading-to-windows-live-skydrive.aspx

SkyDrive to become the center stage of Windows Live?

by admin on September 24, 2009 in Uncategorised with Comments Off on SkyDrive to become the center stage of Windows Live?

With the recent series of updates to Windows Live’s web services (Calendar, Hotmail, Photos, SkyDrive and more), we’re seeing a tip of the iceberg of what’s to come with Windows Live Wave 4 (in fact, we know this because all of the web services have been updated to v15). However, these are no way reflective of what Wave 4 is all about and the recent updates seemed more to simply address what customers wanted with Windows Live. So if this is not it, what are we to expect for the future of Windows Live?

Link – http://liveside.net/main/archive/2009/09/24/skydrive-to-become-the-center-stage-of-windows-live.aspx