SkyDrive - also known as "Microsoft Dropbox" - has a new look. In this Monday, Microsoft unveiled the new design of the service, which underwent a slight retreading to offer an improved navigation to users. But the news does not stop there.
According to MS, HTML5 has been widely implemented in the latest iteration of SkyDrive. CSS3,
The change that pleases me most, the brief test I did with SkyDrive, is navigation through folders and files. Now she is more like Windows, which makes the user feel at home - whether it uses the operating system from Microsoft, of course. That was on purpose, because a billion people on this planet knows navigate folders and files because Windows Explorer. It seems that Microsoft tries to expand this experience to the Internet.
View photos became nicer with the new SkyDrive. The team added the Microsoft Internet folder to display images in grid format. It means that each photo will have their ratio preserved, and SkyDrive will automatically put a picture next to each other, while there is space on the screen.
SkyDrive: see photo layout in the form of grid
Legend has it that the release has to do with Windows 7 Phone "Mango", update of Microsoft's mobile platform that will be released this week for testing. The Mango WP7 will have greater integration with SkyDrive, whence come the changes, all very welcome.
SkyDrive still offering 25 GB of space for the user to do whatever they want. The increased size of the files (or rather, doubled) to 100 MB (300 MB is the Dropbox). The community most humbly thank you, Steve Ballmer.
Especially for Internet Explorer 9, the MS has implemented specific functions of the Site Fixed SkyDrive. After dragging the icon for the site to the taskbar, the user can access files and folders to create Web Office documents in just two clicks.
