Taking a glimpse at the future of SkyDrive (from their blog post)

Taking a glimpse at the future of SkyDrive (from their blog post)

Over at the official Inside Windows Live team blog, Omar Shahine and Mike Torres, Group Program Managers for SkyDrive, recently made a blog post analysing some of the stats of the current competitive environment, ... Read more »
LiveSide presents Questions and Requests, first off is SkyDrive

LiveSide presents Questions and Requests, first off is SkyDrive

Following my meeting with some of Microsoft UK’s Hotmail team last month it has been decided that the event was a great platform to provide feedback to the company through the questions and feature ... Read more »
SkyDrive blog post: setting the stage for a new version, or admitting failure?

SkyDrive blog post: setting the stage for a new version, or admitting failure?

What a strange, but very interesting document!  Today on the Inside Windows Live blog, Omar Shahine and Mike Torres give us a “state of cloud storage” post where they admit: Less than 10% of ... Read more »
SkyDrive updates no longer appearing on Messenger Social feeds?

SkyDrive updates no longer appearing on Messenger Social feeds?

Microsoft seems to have made some changes to its Messenger Social feeds lately. A LiveSide reader Matt Krantz tweeted us the following tip indicating that SkyDrive updates, including documents and photos, are no longer ... Read more »
OneNote 2010 updated to provide better SkyDrive support

OneNote 2010 updated to provide better SkyDrive support

Today, Microsoft released a number of “important” updates for Microsoft Office 2010, and the updates for OneNote 2010 include a number of new Windows Live and SkyDrive related features designed to make it easier ... Read more »
HTC bringing 5gb free Dropbox accounts to all HTC Android phones

HTC bringing 5gb free Dropbox accounts to all HTC Android phones

Last week we wrote about the buzz Dropbox has been getting lately, what with a $4 billion valuation on $250 million in new venture capital, and what that means for SkyDrive.  Today HTC has ... Read more »
What is SkyDrive waiting for?

What is SkyDrive waiting for?

Today the headlines are all about Dropbox, and how the fast-rising company turned down an offer from Steve Jobs, who called the file storage and sharing service “a feature, not a product”.  Precisely. Dropbox ... Read more »
Messenger Connect is now “Live Connect” – new APIs for SkyDrive and Hotmail Calendar

Messenger Connect is now “Live Connect” – new APIs for SkyDrive and Hotmail Calendar

As part of the announcement at the BUILD conference today, Microsoft announced a new SDK and accompanying REST APIs for Windows Live. Originally named “Messenger Connect”, the new developer tools have been expanded in ... Read more »
BUILD: New Windows Live SkyDrive Wave 5 features confirmed, with screenshots

BUILD: New Windows Live SkyDrive Wave 5 features confirmed, with screenshots

So just over 24 hours ago, Steve Sinofsky took the stage at BUILD and unveiled to the world Microsoft’s next version of their operating system, Windows 8. As part of the keynote, Steve invited ... Read more »
Microsoft demos Windows 8 apps for Mail, Calendar, People, Messaging, and Photos

Microsoft demos Windows 8 apps for Mail, Calendar, People, Messaging, and Photos

Early this morning we just posted about what we know about Windows 8 and the future of Windows Live, and now Microsoft’s Harrison Hoffman, Product Manager on the SkyDrive team (and one of the ... Read more »