Corrine Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 There's some major changes coming to SkyDrive. For those not planning on upgrading to Windows 8, the features are also being ported to Windows Vista and Windows 7. Here's the Building Windows 8 post: Connecting your apps, files, PCs and devices to the cloud with SkyDrive and Windows 8. Paul Thurrott has an in depth article here: Windows 8 + SkyDrive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrine Posted February 23, 2012 Author Share Posted February 23, 2012 More on Sky Drive changes: No PC to PC sync in new SkyDrive | LiveSide.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Hmmm, interesting. SkyDrive may always be online, but people may not be. Wonder how that gets handled? Someone works on a file offline, and when they can finally get online, all their work is overwritten with the online file that someone else had been working on at the same time? Not a situation that comes up often, but very likely will if someone is on the road in an area without great connections...like in a valley like New River Gorge, WVa or something like that where they might work on something but not be able to sync it back till they leave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tushman Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 (edited) Cloud computing is gaining some momentum to be sure. From the Windows 8 blog, here's a snippet that is worth highlighting. Fetching files through SkyDrive.com "...we built a new feature that allows you to 'reach across' the Internet to access any file, stream videos, or view photo albums from a remote PC that is running SkyDrive on the desktop. For any remote folder or file, you can also choose to 'copy to SkyDrive,' so that you'll always have it across your devices." On a related note, do any of you remember that Microsoft commercial where the mother is trying to get a nice photo of her family in the living room and none of them seem to be cooperating well? And finally she gives up and says "to the cloud...". She ends up photoshopping some different photos together. The commercial lacked punch and failed miserably in driving home the point. I never fully understood what the message was. (It always amazes me that a company with such deep pockets could fail so miserably with their TV commercials. Talk about fail). Some two years ago when that commercial was running, cloud computing was just beginning to gain some exposure in the IT world. Now with Windows 8 / Skydrive on the horizon - we can see some practical applications for the average user. Edited February 27, 2012 by Tushman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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