Microsoft SkyDrive features Detailed features

After all these years of Skydrive, Microsoft has finally become the cloud hub of Windows, what features does it have as a cloud hub?

Skydrive

In front of the WINDOWS8 has been introduced in the Metro application Skydrive, in fact, Skydrive is a cross-platform, trans-device cloud storage services, Metro UI Skydrive is only part of it also includes Windows traditional desktop client, Skydrive Windows Phone version, IOS version and Mac, Android version. From the figure below we can see that it is basically very Dropbox the route is very similar to the full platform of storage synchronization, then in addition to these common cloud storage service features outside Skydrive what features?

(Skydrive on Win8)

1. Recent use of documents

It is believed that Windows users will not be unfamiliar with the "recently accessed location", and Microsoft has also introduced "Recently used documents" in Skydrive to make it easy for users to quickly find recently accessed documents. This tab bar is also introduced on mobile clients.

(skydrive.com)

(Skydrive Windows Phone client)

(Skydrive IOS client)

2. "Fetch" remote access

Skydrive has a more distinctive "Fetch" feature than other cloud storage. If a SkyDrive application is installed on your computer and is running and is set to allow other devices to access (by default), you can use the Extract file feature to access files and folders on this computer from another computer by transferring to skydrive.com.

(This feature is enabled by default on installation prompts and settings)

(Access to files on the authorized computer from skydrive.com)

Through the "Fetch" (Remote access) function can be the computer files on the bulk management, such as the figure above, you can also separate file management, the following figure, also more suitable for tablet user operations. Future Windows Phone 8 will also have this feature built in.

(Remote capture also supports streaming video and viewing photos as slides)

Note: The remote file acquisition feature is currently limited to PCs and cannot extract files from the Mac.

3. Associate Office

In office 2013, documents are saved in the Skydrive account of the currently logged-on user by default, and are supported to browse directly through the Office program to open the Skydrive file and modify the save synchronization.

Similarly, the Metro version of the OneNote MX file is automatically synchronized under Skydrive by default.