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Microsoft Updates SkyDrive Again

Apr. 17, 2012 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

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Microsoft has been busy shoring up its SkyDrive service in anticipation of its greater use courtesy of Windows 8 integration, and while this week’s update isn’t major, it’s still an interesting step forward.

More specifically, the SkyDrive team notes the following changes in this update:

OpenDocument support. In addition to supporting Microsoft Office document types, SkyDrive now supports OpenDocument as well.

Share to Twitter. You can now share to Twitter, in addition to email and Facebook sharing.

Bigger uploads. SkyDrive now supports 300 MB file uploads from a web browser.

Short URL support. You can use the new sdrv.ms URL shortener to help keep within the Twitter character limit when you share via that service.

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Airraidsiren
on Apr 17, 2012
This GREAT news! I'm very excited that they just upped the file size limit from 100 mb to 300 mb. Now I can actually back up a bunch of home videos of my boys on skydrive too. This is great news! - Shawn Meuse : Proud Owner of a Black Nokia Lumia 900. :)
RealTechboy
on Apr 17, 2012
Raising the max file size to 300MB is great. I previously bought Google storage because of Skydrive's older file size limitations.
rbarberi
on Apr 18, 2012
I love the skydive service, but if I could have my wish granted I would be able to sync the whole 25 gigs to my pc like dropbox. I do currently use Windows Live Mesh, but I only get 5 gig of sync. I want it all. Hey I can dream right?
Backup77
on Apr 18, 2012
Very useful update, skydrive is getting better as time goes by. Bigger uploads is a real plus.
kjb434
on Apr 24, 2012
Roybarberi, I would stop using Windows Live Mesh. The new SkyDrive integration into the Win7 and WinVista file system gives you the same functionality (actually better) as the Windows Mesh Livesync. And you can get all of your 25GB worth. I installed it last night and now all I have to do is drag files or past files into the SkyDrive icon in windows explorer and the files start syncing. You can easily view all files on SkyDrive without web interface. This is the momentous SkyDrive update I was anticipating. The best feature of all is that you can remotely browse your computer (and home network) from the SkyDrive web interface like you were sitting at home. This feature has been muted in all the reporting, but it's just plain awesome.

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