Microsoft’s online storage service will benefit from a new home page that will offer simplified navigation and new sharing options.
Microsoft’s cloud storage platform turns 15. Since its launch in 2007, OneDrive, originally known as SkyDrive, has undergone many evolutions, both in terms of interface and functionality.
Today, to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of its online storage service, Microsoft announced that it wants to deploy a new interface and new features very soon.
A clearer homepage
The Redmond firm intends to introduce OneDrive Home, a new home page completely redesigned to allow you quick access to the most relevant documents as well as files on which you have recently worked. The display of recent files has been redesigned to highlight the documents you are working on. New sorting options have been integrated to allow you to filter items by file type.
OneDrive is also able to access all of Microsoft’s collaborative tools. It is thus possible to mention collaborators using the at sign, or to work with several people in real time on the same element. To facilitate collaborative work, Microsoft is introducing a new Activity column in OneDrive. It will bring together all the most recent modifications and comments (but invisible on the documents), made by all the collaborators.
Microsoft also indicates that it has optimized the sharing tools to make them more intuitive between the applications of its Office office suite, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams. The sharing window, similar on each of the tools, thus makes it possible to manage the people with whom the files are shared, but also to supervise the authorizations of each one.
Stories for your photos and videos
If originally OneDrive did not support photos or videos, Microsoft very quickly rectified the situation. A year after the launch of SkyDrive, the Redmond firm announced the possibility of storing photos and videos on its cloud storage space. But we had to wait for the launch of the iOS applications in 2011 and Android in 2012 for OneDrive to be able to back up and synchronize the content of your smartphone’s camera roll.
To prevent these memories from being forgotten, Microsoft has just announced the integration of Stories into OneDrive. As already exists on Google Photos or iCloud for example, OneDrive will use the photos and videos stored on your space to generate souvenir stories. They will remain private, but can be shared with your loved ones who will then have the opportunity to react and comment. OneDrive photo story is currently only launched in Australia on Android and iOS mobile applications as well as from the OneDrive WebApp. Microsoft plans to roll out this feature more widely, serving the United States and then the rest of the world by the end of 2022.
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