Yesterday marked the much anticipated rebrand of SkyDrive to OneDrive, but in a companion move, Microsoft also announced that Office Web Apps is now “Office Online”. Of course, if you’ve been reading LiveSide, you already knew the change was coming, as we spotted the new name back …
Its official: SkyDrive is now OneDrive
Microsoft just announced that SkyDrive is now officially OneDrive, and available in over 100 languages at www.onedrive.com or by logging in to your former SkyDrive account. Last year, after fighting in court over European trademark rights to the SkyDrive name with BSkyB and losing, Microsoft had a …
Windows Phone 8.1 icons provide clues to Cortana, dual sims, more
Ever since the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK, provided early to developers, leaked last week, we’ve been learning more and more about what’s upcoming for Windows Phone’s next OS update. So far, the SDK has revealed a long list of new features, but thanks to some sleuthing by our …
Bing Health and Fitness Beta comes to Windows Phone 8
When Windows 8.1 was delivered last October, Microsoft released two brand new Bing Apps, Bing Health & Fitness and Bing Food & Drink, to extend already existing Bing Apps family . At the same time, Microsoft Bing AppEx team has been actively “porting” Windows 8 Bing apps …
The Windows Phone 8.1 features you haven’t seen in the leaked SDK
If you had been following the news lately, a preview version of Windows Phone 8.1 SDK were distributed to selected beta testers earlier this week, which were then inevitably leaked to the internet. The SDK included not only development tools, but also the Windows Phone 8.1 emulator and …
Skype updated to fix multiple device sync
Ever since Microsoft announced the deal to acquire Skype back in May of 2011 (closing the deal in October of that year), updates to Skype have fallen into the Microsoft cadence: that is – slow. While there has been undoubtedly an immense amount of work done on the …
SkyDrive Updated for Windows 8.1: brings back sync icon
Microsoft released a number of updates for Windows 8.1 RT, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2, and among the updates was something a bit unexpected: a SkyDrive update that brings back the sync icon in the taskbar and updates SkyDrive settings.
The Support page (KB 2923768…
Android on Nokia: Microsoft’s Asha problem
The Android on Nokia story, which has been percolating ever since word first leaked out about a Nokia “Normandy” device, boiled over yesterday with a Wall Street Journal post reporting that Nokia is indeed planning to announce a Nokia device running Android at MWC (Bloomberg today says …
Exclusive: OneDrive to offer bonus free storage for friends referral and camera roll backup
In case you missed it, yesterday we exclusively reported that OneDrive is getting a new “co-owned folders” feature. But the good news doesn’t stop here, as we have received more exclusive information regarding what’s to come with OneDrive.
LiveSide has learnt that OneDrive will offer up to …
Exclusive: First screenshots of OneDrive.com leaked, co-owned folders coming soon
Only two weeks ago, Microsoft announced the rebranding of their online storage service from SkyDrive to OneDrive, partly due to the loss of a trademark case with BSkyB, which owns trademark rights to “Sky” in the EU. However, the switch has yet to happen, and OneDrive is …
