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Use of SkyDrive Eliminates Attachments, Increases Productivity

One of the benefits of using SkyDrive is the possibility to eliminate attachments from your work and to improve collaboration with colleagues or between two or more teams. With SkyDrive and its collaboration features, working together on the same document is easier than before, given the fact that all parties have...

11 February 2012
12:41 GMT

SkyDrive and Office Web Apps Can Help Student Collaborations

Microsoft has been constantly focused on delivering products tailored for the young. Some of these are the company’s cloud offerings, including SkyDrive and Office Web Apps. These can easily help students better collaborate on various group projects, and all schools, colleges and universities seeking student...

30 January 2012
04:53 GMT

Tips to Stay Organized and Productive in 2012

2012 is expected to bring a series of interesting changes in the technology area, especially with Microsoft preparing the launch of Windows 8 and Windows Server 8. The release of new technologies means getting accustomed with new ways of staying organized and remain productive, though there are also some actions t...

4 January 2012
10:01 GMT

SkyDrive Goes Mobile on iPhone and Windows Phone

SkyDrive, the cloud service that enables storing of documents, photos, or videos, is now available on iPhone and Windows Phone devices as well, so that users all around the world could enjoy fast access to it at all times. The availability of SkyDrive on these mobile platforms follows shortly after Microsoft perfo...

14 December 2011
05:13 GMT

Download Microsoft SkyDrive 1.0 for iPhone, iPad

Microsoft has released SkyDrive for iPhone and iPad, a free application acting as the gateway to the files you store via the Windows maker’s cloud service.“With SkyDrive for the iPhone, you can now easily access, manage and share files on the go. You can also upload photos or videos from your iPhone to Sk...

14 December 2011
04:26 GMT

Updated APIs for SkyDrive-Enabled Windows 8 and Windows Phone Apps

Only a few weeks ago, Microsoft announced a major SkyDrive revamp, with new features and improvements for users to take advantage of, and it seems that the company has something in store for application developers as well. The company has announced a new set of APIs available for those application builders who wou...

12 December 2011
02:44 GMT

SkyDrive Gets Redesigned, Adds a Lot of Enhancements

SkyDrive, the cloud storage service that already delivers to billions of people, has been redesigned with a ton of improvements for users to benefit from. Most of the enhancements the service features now are based on the feedback received from users, which means that many will certainly rejoice learning that these ...

29 November 2011
12:42 GMT

Video Presentation of Office on Nokia Lumia 800

Nokia's new Lumia 800 smartphone arrives on shelves with support for all of the services that other Windows Phone devices can support, but also features a series of exclusives that make the experience it can deliver unique. Office integration, however, is one capability that others can also deliver, though it ...

10 November 2011
15:31 GMT

OneNote 2010 Update Enhances SkyDrive and Sync Features

Office OneNote 2010’s Cloud features have been kicked up a notch with an update issued on November 7, 2011, according to Varun Srinivasan, OneNote program manager. Srinivasan notes that the changes introduced with the advent of KB 2553290 come as a result of user feedback, and that in addition to the new feat...

9 November 2011
06:33 GMT

A DNS Issue Caused the September 8 Windows Live Outage

On September 8th, 2011, a few Windows Live services, including Hotmail and SkyDrive suffered an outage caused by a Domain Name Service (DNS) issue, according to Arthur de Haan, vice president, Windows Live Test and Service Engineering. Microsoft became aware of the problem at approximately 8:00 PM PDT and started...

21 September 2011
05:35 GMT

Preview SkyDrive on Windows 8

Last week, following the introduction of Windows 8 Developer Preview Build 8102 Milestone 3 (M3), Microsoft also released a redesign to its Windows Live SkyDrive website. The two are connected, and set up to stress the more prominent role that SkyDrive will get to play in the next iteration of the Windows client. In...

19 September 2011
04:45 GMT

Microsoft Resolves Windows Live Hotmail and SkyDrive Outage

Microsoft has now dealt with issues that caused some Windows Live services, including Hotmail and SkyDrive to be unavailable. The Redmond company confirmed the Windows Live Hotmail and SkyDrive outage in the late hours of September 8, 2011. According to Microsoft’s Chris Jones, Windows Live customers had been...

9 September 2011
07:51 GMT

Windows Live Integration Comes to Android, iOS, Windows Phone

One of the new features that mobile application developers can take advantage from when designing their software is the ability for users to access Hotmail, Messenger, and SkyDrive from their handsets as long as these run under Android, iOS, or Windows Phone.Redmond-based Microsoft has just announced that a new rele...

23 July 2011
02:17 GMT

Co-Authoring in Word Web App, Office Web Apps Collaboration Evolution in the Cloud

Word Web App is growing up and following in the footsteps of its bigger brothers Office Word 2010 and Office Word for Mac 2011, by flexing its collaborative muscles. The collaboration capabilities of Microsoft’s hosted flavor of Office evolved this week with the introduction of co-authoring for the Word Web Ap...

8 July 2011
03:03 GMT

SkyDrive Now Faster, HTML5 Optimized

A new, updated SkyDrive website is now available for the over 100 million people who already gave the service a try, promising a faster experience, easier navigation, along with optimizations for today's modern browsers and HTML5. The new SkyDrive should have been already rolled out for all users, but, provided...

22 June 2011
02:01 GMT

Microsoft SkyDrive Gets a HTML5 Makeover

Not that too many people know about it, but Microsoft does have a cloud storage service to compete with the likes of Dropbox, Google Docs and Apple's iCloud. While it is the most generous when it comes to free storage, SkyDrive's website was slow and confusing. Thankfully, Microsoft realized this too and ha...

21 June 2011
08:51 GMT

Windows Phone Mango Comes with SkyDrive Integration

Windows Phone Mango, the next version of Microsoft's mobile operating system, is set to arrive on the market with a great deal of impressive features, some of which are related to SkyDrive, the Redmond-based software giant unveiled last month. Last week, the company unveiled additional details on this featu...

14 June 2011
14:21 GMT

Windows Phone 7 Tips and Tricks (VI) - SkyDrive and Zune

Microsoft is trying to offer Windows Phone 7 users, as few as they may be at the moment, the whole package of useful services along with its mobile platform. However, Microsoft took Apple's example and is currently offering only services that are developed by the company, such as Zune, Bing and SkyDrive.This lea...

9 November 2010
15:01 GMT

Office Updates for Over 20 Million People

New Features for Office Web Apps were released yesterday, by the Windows Live Team, which also made Office Web Apps available in seven more countries, including Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Russia, and Switzerland. Three months after the launch of Office Web Apps, over 20 million people in the Unite...

24 September 2010
04:36 GMT

New Windows Live SkyDrive Logo Unveiled

As a part of the evolution to Windows Live Wave 4, Microsoft is also rolling out a new version of a service designed to offer users free storage space in the Cloud. Windows Live SkyDrive, a free storage service from the Redmond company, is moving forward to Wave 4 along with the rest of the clients and services inclu...

6 July 2010
10:35 GMT

25GB Free Online Storage – Windows Live SkyDrive

Microsoft is increasing the capacity offered by its storage service in the Cloud fivefold. This means that users of Windows Live SkyDrive will be able to enjoy no less than 25GB of free online storage. The move comes as a natural evolution of the Windows Live suite of services and applications towards the full implem...

13 November 2008
10:01 GMT

Windows (Vista SP1, XP SP3, Windows 7) - SkyDrive Synchronization

Microsoft plans to deliver an intimate connection between its Windows client and its cloud storage service hosted under the Windows Live umbrella brand. The Redmond company has continually been hinting at the bridging of its Windows desktop operating system with the Windows Live suite of services and products, as an ...

18 March 2008
08:00 GMT

The Sky's the Limit: 5GB of Free Online Storage Courtesy of Microsoft

With its Windows Live suite of products and services, Microsoft is following the general tendency of traditional software solutions migrating online. Offerings under the Windows Live brand are illustrative examples of the new Software as a Service and Software plus Service strategy, a small aspect of both being stora...

25 February 2008
04:30 GMT

McAfee: Windows Live SkyDrive Serving Spam

McAfee has warned that Windows Live SkyDrive is serving spam. The security company reveals that the fault does not lay with Microsoft's free online hosting service, but with its users. More specifically, malicious users have started abusing SkyDriver, formerly known as Windows Live Folder, in order to send out s...

11 January 2008
05:42 GMT

SkyDrive... Microsoft's Windows Live Storage Service in the Cloud

Windows Live Folders is essentially Microsoft's response and alternative to Google's GDrive (Codename Platypus), and went live as a private beta at the end of June. Presented as "password-protected online file storage. Always available where you need it" the service is Microsoft's way to offer storage ...

6 August 2007
07:03 GMT


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