Wednesday, April 18, 2012

SkyDrive adds support for larger files, OpenDocument and short URLs

With the imminent launch of Google Drive, file storage services are not running to be disadvantaged. The Dropbox recently doubled the bonuses in users and developers of LogMeIn decided to enter the market with Cubby. Now it's time for Microsoft to release updates to SkyDrive.


To announce the news, the SkyDrive team decided to wear the shirt, sent a text document to the service itself. By downloading, the first novel: the file was saved in OpenDocument format - yes, the open source standard that Microsoft fought to defend their own format, OOXML. Other texts (*. Odt), spreadsheets (*. Ods) and presentations (*. Odp) should also be sent normally to SkyDrive and visualized with Office Web Apps.

Windows Phone users who use the native sharing photos links will automatically shortened by Twitter sdrv.ms. Previously, the links had huge pictures, which were shortened by the microblogging service. The preview images, available for Instagram, Twitpic and other services, however, is not available, which may alienate some users - including me.