The one thing that is most important in a file-sync solution for me is cross-platform support. And very few players in the field handle this well (Android/Linux/iOS/Windows/Mac). I doubt MS is even thinking of going cross-platform for SkyDrive, so meh.
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#22It'll be interesting to see how Canonical will respond, if they will respond. Their service is called 'Ubuntu One' or sometimes just 'One'.
We'd know by now with XBox One.
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#23They should have named it this anyway, it makes me immediately think of OneNote, which is an MS app that TONS of non-power/non-technical users know about. If you told someone you could put your notes in OneNote and it backs them up to OneDrive that would probably make a lot of sense to most people.
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#24Just so you know, Microsoft was forced to change the name after losing a trademark case in the UK.
Ugh. I'm going to guess Sky TV? Lawyers ruin everything.
The dispute was with BSkyB.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/27/following-trademark-dispute...
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#25The one thing that is most important in a file-sync solution for me is cross-platform support. And very few players in the field handle this well (Android/Linux/iOS/Windows/Mac). I doubt MS is even thinking of going cross-platform for SkyDrive, so meh.
There is a SkyDrive/OneDrive client for all of those OSes except Linux.
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#26I guess I'm somewhat of an anomaly in that I really like the Microsoft ecosystem. I have a Windows Phone, a Surface Pro 2, an XBox One, and so on, all the way to Office and Visual Studio.
But, and I don't even know what a gorge is, as forgiving as being a fanboy makes me, sometimes Microsoft makes my gorge rise. I'm sure OneDrive will be nice. But WTF are they doing with Xbox Music on SkyDrive (and it seems OneDrive won't change it)?!?
Windows 8 crows about its ability to upload my music (that I paid for) to SkyDrive, allowing me to play it anywhere. Except on my fucking XBox One. Which insists I purchase an XBox Music Pass to play my own music.
WTF. Seriously, really, WTF-a-doodle-doo?!?
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#28Xbox One, OneDrive -- are we looking at Windows One next?
OneNote has been around for a while. It might have provided some of the inspiration?
Also, as mentioned Canonicals reaction might be interesting.
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#30What a disaster of PR naming. The service is great but the constant rebranding is going to confuse customers. I guess ill see an app update on my Lumina soon too.
They were obligated to rename it after losing a case in the UK. Nothing to be done.