The difference between OneDrive and SkyDrive, not only is the name changed

Although in the mobile Internet field is weak, but Microsoft has been trying to optimize its Internet services, to achieve "hardware + Software" Integrated application experience. Just last month, Microsoft announced that its cloud services "SkyDrive" renamed "OneDrive", the project has been completed, including the Web site, mobile app applications are all updated, adding some new features ...

Next, let's look at how OneDrive evolved.

From "SkyDrive" to "OneDrive", and not just to match the new game host Xbox one, but also to represent the Microsoft Cloud Platform will provide more comprehensive hardware coverage and functionality: more convenient one-stop file access.

Currently, users can access OneDrive cloud services through web sites, desktop applications, mobile devices (IOS, Android, and Windows Phone), Xbox one, and 360 gaming consoles. The Web site address has been changed to onedrive.com, and other applications including IOS have been updated.

As for desktop applications, Windows 7, 8, Vista, and Apple Mac OS X can download a dedicated application, and Windows 8.1, which has built-in SkyDrive, needs to wait until the next system update to become more OneDrive.

Like SkyDrive, OneDrive has 7GB free cloud space, mobile end users can also get additional 3GB photo storage space, through user referral mechanism, can also obtain 500MB of expansion.

If these cloud space is not enough, you can also choose to purchase additional packages, 50GB one-year cost of 156 yuan, 100GB a year cost of 311 yuan, 200GB one-year cost of 622 yuan.

First, OneDrive has all the features of the previous SkyDrive, including uploading any files, viewing Office documents, Notepad files, and so on, and supporting Outloook messages, photo uploads, and zip format files.

At the same time, OneDrive also added new features, first of all support googledrive file real-time collaboration, easy to edit Google documents. At the same time, Android apps have been able to support the automatic uploading of photo files (previously supported only by IOS and Windows Phone 8 platforms).

Finally, the video upload function has been enhanced, the current OneDrive has a new dynamic engine, can realize the dynamic coding function, when you upload a video file to the cloud, other users watch online, the system will be based on their bandwidth and speed to choose the best quality and fluency, reduce the cache phenomenon.

Cloud services, such as Apple, Google and Dropbox, have essentially carved up the cloud services market, while Microsoft is implementing further integrated services with its own operating systems and hardware through improved OneDrive services. Of course, the platform for cloud services is open, and if you are not a Microsoft hardware user, OneDrive may not be attractive, and Microsoft's mobile platform service expansion is still a long way off.