14 DAY TRIAL // A new version of Windows 8.1 got leaked this morning, confirming that Microsoft has prepared several improvements for the RTM build of the operating system.
One of the updates concerns the built-in SkyDrive app that now lets users change the location where all files are stored.
“You can change where files in this folder are stored to another place on this hard drive, another drive, or another computer on your network,” the description of the new feature explains.
Microsoft claims that interest for the dedicated options to change the default SkyDrive folder in Windows 8.1 has been very high ever since the Preview version of the OS update reached the web.
“Moving the location of where the files live in 8.1 - we definitely want to give you more choice. It was unfortunate that we couldn't get this into the Windows 8.1 Preview release but it is currently running in the build I have,” one member of the SkyDrive development team said in a recent AMA session on Reddit.
What’s more, the tech giant has promised to implement even more changes in the built-in SkyDrive app offered to Windows 8.1 users.
While no details have been provided, Microsoft says that more improvements are needed especially because users find this particular app very helpful, as it now serves as Metro file manager for files stored in the cloud and locally.
“SkyDrive in 8.1 lets you have way more files on your local machine from your SkyDrive than the amount of storage available - we call them placeholder files -- we saw in the real world that the amount on disk people were using compared to the amount of data they had stored in SkyDrive was < 5%,” the SkyDrive engineer explained.
As far as the final version of Windows 8.1 is concerned, word is that Microsoft is planning to bring to the masses shortly after the OS update hits RTM, so expect it to be here in just a few weeks.