Making personal cloud storage for Windows available anywhere, with the new SkyDrive

re: Making personal cloud storage for Windows available anywhere, with the new SkyDrive

Michele Fioretto — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:54:16 GMT

Hi all,

I'm using the Dell Xt2 with windows 8.

N-trig drivers now is ok (download from n-trig support site) and also dcomm bluetooth drivers are working well.

Many thanks!!

Windows 8 is really fast!!

re: Making personal cloud storage for Windows available anywhere, with the new SkyDrive

DanyRodier1 — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:59:55 GMT

Please add in the Settings the option to include files that have been shared with me and, above all, the option to choose which folders are to be synced, as Google Drive wonderfully does (see Google Drive Preferences menu). This would partially compensate for the loss of Mesh.

re: Making personal cloud storage for Windows available anywhere, with the new SkyDrive

Windows 7 — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:17:24 GMT

Has anyone tried using a USB pen drive?

I get the feeling Windows 8 is nothing more than a whole load of unnecessary gimmicky bolt ons to Windows 7.

re: Making personal cloud storage for Windows available anywhere, with the new SkyDrive

hamakaze japan — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:43:02 GMT

Although it is not related to a report, is such adopted in the head office or other countries?

It is from South Korea.

To "Pololo" of the South Korean character, and the basic application of Windows 8

It was checked that "Pololo" had been contained in the basic application of the new "Windows 8" which is this autumn sale schedule.

South Korean Microsoft (MS) was clarified on the 29th, saying "Pololo"　is provided in the basic installation recommendation application of an application store (Windows store) of Windows 8, and application is under development with the iconics entertainment of a "Pololo" developer."

Windows 8 is an operating system (OS) which can use not only a personal computer but mobile computing devices like a tablet or a smart phone.

MS is the software developed to a counterattack in the mobile OS market pushed on an apple "iOS" and Google "android."

re: Making personal cloud storage for Windows available anywhere, with the new SkyDrive

surendra kumar jat — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:24:52 GMT

7GB is enough for storing files for me on skydrive. Now i can access my files anytime anywhere or any device even mobile or laptop.

re: Making personal cloud storage for Windows available anywhere, with the new SkyDrive

Patrick Mohr — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:41:13 GMT

No android AND no linux? What do you have against open source?

re: Making personal cloud storage for Windows available anywhere, with the new SkyDrive

slimscraggle — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:41:25 GMT

Please add peer to peer syncing of specific folders back. This, and remote desktop have been the primary reasons I've used Windows Live/Mesh/SkyDrive. The new model is such a dramatic downgrade in the service I doubt very much I'll use it at all without the peer to peer specific folder syncing we've been enjoying without complication for years. Please add this essential feature back.

re: Making personal cloud storage for Windows available anywhere, with the new SkyDrive

Talon — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:35:19 GMT

Pretty sweet to bad I missed the cut off for the 25 gigs :(

re: Making personal cloud storage for Windows available anywhere, with the new SkyDrive

Chris Warwick — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:19:18 GMT

I must say I have to agree with the comments about the reduced functionality over Live Mesh. This is a real issue for me because my Desktop PC runs off an SSD with around 30GB free space and that's not enough free space to enable me to sync my SkyDrive content.

All my storage (including my "Documents" folder) is away on a server in another room.

So, I'm disappointed because the predecessor to Live Mesh allowed me to sync from network shared folders and also ran fine with junction points whereas Live Mesh doesn't support those cases; I upgraded to Live Mesh and had to re-arrange my way of working - which wasn't ideal but has at least been useable. Now I'm facing the prospect of Live Mesh being replaced by a product which reduces functionality once more. Now I can't selectively sync individual folders or vary the folder destinations away from the fixed (once I've installed) "SkyDrive" folder on a local hard disk.

For me this doesn't work and, basically, I can't use it.

OK, I fully understand why you want to "keep it simple"; there's a general move to that across the board and it can be a good approach. I can see why you just "want it to work". You're going to have millions of users on those servers and it needs to be robust and reliable.

What I don't see is why you have to remove the option of flexibility along the way? In my case (and a large number of others on small/SSD drives), the flexibility is reduced to the extent that I can't use the service at all.

As a solution for me and others, why not keep the same setup experience you have now, but expose the extra functionality in an "Advanced" dialog of the settings screen? Carefully hidden out of the way for most people but available to those who really need it? Or just make the functionality available from PowerShell cmdlets only?

Your blog section on Power Users isn't very helpful. Sure, we can add shortcuts to SkyDrive folders to libraries - we can do that with most any folder. Changing the primary target of special folders to the SkyDrive folder is a cute idea but is only ever going to work in a few cases (and only if your Pictures/Documents/Whatever folder is small enough). What is just PLAIN WRONG though is the assertion that ... there are "too many unresolvable complexities across different PCs, with the path on one PC synchronizing to entirely different paths on other PCs and the cloud. In order to maintain our goal of “it just works,” we designed SkyDrive to be the same everywhere". This is wrong because when I run setup I can specify an alternate path to the SkyDrive folder on different machines - just as I can with Live Mesh. This means that on one machine the SkyDrive folder could be at C:\Data\SkyDrive, while on another machine it could be at "D:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\2012\SkyDrive" - and the location could be on another different folder path completely on a third (and subsequent) machine. How is this not using different paths on different PCs?

I can easily handle the concept of synching different folders of different sizes to different locations on different drives on different PCs. I can see why you want to avoid the complexity of that scenario in some cases, but for me it's a show-stopper. Even so, I would put up with the restriction if I could and live with a single ("DropBox" type) folder, but I just have no option based on my SSD size. I can't sync my SkyDrive to my desktop PC.

So I'm sadly disappointed on several counts. You've dumbed down your first sync product to give us Live Mesh, now you've dumbed down Live Mesh - to the extent that it's unusable - to give us SkyDrive.

I won't miss the Live Mesh remote desktop; it was a great idea, but I can live without it. But I will miss the ability to sync arbitrary folders.

I'm loving Windows 8, Metro, Start Screen, all this new stuff. I love the idea that SkyDrive fits right in there. I love the way you blog about this stuff and the fact that you often respond to the feedback; but you're ignoring feedback on this point. From the comments here and from comments on other articles it is clear that a lot of people are going to be missing the functionality I've been talking about.

Please fix this. It would be such a shame after all this great effort to end up with a product that just doesn't work.

Thanks!

Chris

re: Making personal cloud storage for Windows available anywhere, with the new SkyDrive

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:43:23 GMT

No Linux and Android client? Seriously?

I should just continue to use Dropbox then.