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Posts Tagged ‘skydrive’

Office Online and OneDrive to Rule Them All

You may have heard about a little legal trouble Microsoft was in because of the name they chose for the SkyDrive service. Last month Microsoft announced the new OneDrive name and a small change to the paid version from SkyDrive Pro to OneDrive for Business. OneDrive is Microsoft’s foray into the cloud storage service market, competing with other […]

A Sign That Cloud Storage Is Maturing

I’ve been a user of Neat’s scan receipt software and hardware for years. It’s simplified my expenses and given me a certain amount of flexibility when I travel.  Like many other vendors, they constantly stive to make their niche more relevant.  For them, that means rolling out cloud and mobile services in late 2012.   […]

What do you think is the best Free Office alternative?

Well guess what I think is the best alternative, are you ready? It is Office Web Apps!  Office Web Apps are free versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. If you’re like me, I like to use application that have the same look and feel as the applications I’m used to, in this case it […]

Will Xbox One have potential outside of gaming and entertainment?

Will Xbox One be used in the workplace, is a question I ask myself as I see information come across the wire. The simple answer is Yes it will have value in the workplace in my opinion. At first glance it may not have a place in the enterprise, though I believe it will be […]

Power of the SkyDrive API

So continuing on my SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro kick, I want to focus today on why having an API in SkyDrive gives extra value and opens up many opportunities.  Here’s a short list. BoxCryptor BoxCryptor provides secure encryption for your files.  They work with all the major vendors (SkyDrive, Google Drive, Box, and Dropbox)  This […]

Access SkyDrive Pro Using SharePoint 2013 API’s

You may have noticed that I’m on a SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro kick of late. It has more to do with me wanting to understand and use the tools to their fullest extent.  While SkyDrive has a well known and documented API, SkyDrive Pro hasn’t reached that point yet.  However, the SharePoint Developer Team over […]

Got Apps? SkyDrive Pro Now Available on iOS, WinPhone

Good news this morning for those using SharePoint 2013 and SkyDrive Pro for business collaboration and content storage / backup. Microsoft announced the news today (okay, technically yesterday) over on the Office 365 blog: We are pleased to announce that the SkyDrive Pro apps for Windows 8 and iOS are now available in the Windows […]

SPC12: Overview of SkyDrive Pro

I’ve been very interested in SkyDrive because of it’s obvious overlap with Dropbox.  We’ve even blogged about Dropbox and similar tools here, here,  and here.  The bottom line is that if all you want to do is share a file, then a web interface just won’t work.  Instead, you want to sync your files across […]