Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Microsoft's SkyDrive gets a fresh coat of paint


(Credit: ZDNet)

SkyDrive, Microsoft's cloud storage service, has gotten a 'more modern' make-over.


Microsoft officials took the wraps off the latest update to SkyDrive on August 14, the day before Microsoft is set to start rolling out the official Windows 8 RTM bits to developers, IT pros and volume licensees. The changes to SkyDrive.com were detailed in a post on the new "Inside Skydrive" blog.


In addition to a new user interface for SkyDrive.com, Microsoft also has made bug fixes to Windows and Mac OS X Skydrive client apps, and is introducing a new SkyDrive for Android phone app that will be coming in "just a few weeks." The new SkyDrive.com will roll out over the next 24 hours, officials said.(If "Metro" wasn't now a banned word, the new SkyDrive look and feel could be described as Metro-fied. Because of whatever kind of "discussions" between Microsoft and an unnamed European partner have led to the discontinuation of the use of the Metro name, some teams at Microsoft seems to be ... [Read more]



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