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Re: Microsoft SkyDrive is now OneDrive

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post #13

It'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.

Well OneDrive and UbuntuOne are in exactly the same area (cloud hosting of stuff, integrated with an operating system) so it's a lot easier to sue imo (thank god ianal)

Re: Microsoft SkyDrive is now OneDrive

#34

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.

There is a SkyDrive/OneDrive client for all of those OSes except Linux. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/skydrive/download

Yeah, you're right. This is why Skydrive will be a major player, but as a Linux user, its just not for me :(

Re: Microsoft SkyDrive is now OneDrive

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post #5

What 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.

They've not had much luck recently on that front. Both Skydrive and Metro had to be re-branded.

Re: Microsoft SkyDrive is now OneDrive

#36
Yeah except that it's not one drive.

I have SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro running on my desktop. SkyDrive Pro is the one that's supposed to be connected to my Office Online account. Yet when I try to save a new Office document the directory defaults to ... SkyDrive. There seems to be no way to change this behavior.

They should call it TwoDrive.

Re: Microsoft SkyDrive is now OneDrive

#37
I don't care what they call it, as long as they fix it.

It works great most of the time, but occasionally on my surface I get a message like "40k of disk space needed" to open a 40k document. And it simply won't open. Sometimes on my laptop it won't save.

And yes I have 45 gig of space on the device. Still using Google drive for most stuff.

Re: Microsoft SkyDrive is now OneDrive

#39
post #12

Microsoft seems to be making progress in unwinding the habit of convoluted naming schemes. I would love to hear a testimonial from a Microsoft marketing insider as to where the naming trend came from, and how they view it internally. My most recent encounter was looking into the product currently known as "Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio 2012", previously known as "Microsoft Expression Blend for Visual Studio". I l…

No, it was previously known only as "Microsoft Expression Blend", no Visual Studio. The new name reflects that you can no longer get it standalone, you must get it as part of VS2012/2013.

Re: Microsoft SkyDrive is now OneDrive

#40

I 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…

It wont sync with your windows phone either. And half the time ot wont play off SkyDrive.

Every ecosystem has a pain in the ass step somewhere either by design (Apple/iTunes) or questionable integration (windows live or whatever it is called now). It's frustrating. Android may be better but my only experience is with 2.3 which is ancient.

For music, I actually got pissed off with it to the point of buying a CD player.

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