Microsoft opens Wednesday morning the doors of OneDrive, after a British court ruled that the name SkyDrive infringed on trademarks. However, Microsoft has changed than just the name of the web service.
Wednesday morning is the name SkyDrive everywhere changed except in the client for the new Windows 8 interface, marketing manager Coen Nijkrake of Microsoft know Tweakers. That name will be changed later; we need an update for Windows 8.1 will be issued. The name change was at the end of January already announced and is not voluntary. Last summer, Microsoft lost a lawsuit with the British media group BSkyB we had brought. The British court ruled that Microsoft infringes the trademark of BSkyB, and that the name worldwide had to be adapted.
Microsoft took the mandatory name change to a number of new things to introduce. Thus, users can now old versions of documents to recover and deleted documents to be restored. Of each document of the last 25 versions stored, as well as the last two releases per author. Dropbox has already since his introduction to that functionality. In addition, the Android app for OneDrive has now also the ability to automatically upload photos to OneDrive to upload; in the OneDrive apps for iOS and Windows Phone, it could already longer.
Furthermore, users from OneDrive is now easier with the web versions of Word, Excel, and OneNote. To view documents that others have shared, it is not a Microsoft account is needed, but for the editing of documents. The web versions offer now the possibility to people at the same time documents to work, where they are each other’s changes in real-time. There is no maximum for the number of people simultaneously on a document. Previously, users could, however, simultaneously work on documents, but they had new mambo for the changes to be able to see. Incidentally, Google Drive for years about this functionality.
Another functionality of Dropbox is learnt, is the possibility to add additional storage space to receive friends an account is created. Both get 500MB extra. A user can thus up to 5GB of extra space to earn, on top of the standard 7GB of free storage. Who has the automatic photo upload turned on, get another 3GB of storage; the maximum storage space for free up to 15GB. In addition, users can now additional storage space to buy.
Finally, videos are automatically transcoded, so they are on different devices in different resolutions can be viewed. Taken into consideration is the internet speed, so that a user is using a slow internet connection still can view, promises Microsoft.
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