Great news for SkyDrive users: Microsoft has revamped SkyDrive with a more modern Windows 8 design, added a bunch of new features, and finally announced plans for a dedicated Android SkyDrive app.
The new interface brings a tile-based layout to your files and folders, complete with support for dragging-and-dropping multiple files. (Don’t worry, you can still access the normal details view.) A new contextual toolbar should make working with folders and docs quicker, and finding your files should be easier too with the new instant search. One handy feature is the customised sorting settings — so you can save your preference for arranging files on a folder-by-folder basis.
An official SkyDrive app for Android phones is finally coming — “in just a few weeks,” according to the SkyDrive blog post. As with the Windows Phone and iOS apps, the Android SkyDrive app will give you access to your SkyDrive files on the go.
Desktop SkyDrive apps are also faster and mor efficient now, especially when it comes to bulk photo uploading and syncing recent changed files.
Perhaps the best news buried in the announcement is that Microsoft is working on a “choosing what to sync” option. This should mean you’ll be able to selectively sync certain folders or files, rather than maxing out your entire SkyDrive storage space. This is still a “stay tuned” feature, though.
A new modern SkyDrive.com, updated apps, and Outlook.com at 10 million users [SkyDrive Windows Blog]
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