Microsoft Says "Don't Wait for Your Cloud" with SkyDrive in Windows Phone

Oooh this is gonna be good. One day after the-fruit-company-that-shall-not-be-named made a big splash with its iCloud service, Microsoft sends us a friendly reminder via the Inside Windows Live Blog that their smartphone OS has been doing the same thing...since November of last year. Of course, SkyDrive has been around for longer than that and integrated with other services like Hotmail, Messenger, Office, etc. which that post talks about in detail, but we're here to see Windows Phone.

Microsoft's Mike Torres has detailed some SkyDrive changes expected to debut with Windows Phone Mango this Fall and boy do they look good:

• Share photos stored on SkyDrive via email, text, or IM
  SkyDrive lets you store thousands of pictures in the cloud. You can show them off to friends on your phone in the Pictures hub, and now you can share SkyDrive photos with anyone over email, text, or Messenger/Facebook.
• Share your video on SkyDrive
  With Mango, all the goodness you had with photos has been extended to videos. Once you’re finished shooting your video, you can caption it and share immediately on SkyDrive, and the upload will happen in the background while you move on to other things.
• Browse your documents stored on SkyDrive
  Windows Phone lets you view folders and files directly on your phone, so when you group things on SkyDrive, you know they’ll be available with the same folder structure on your phone.
• See what’s been shared with you
  More than 70% of the folders created on SkyDrive are shared with other people, which makes it all the more important to see everything shared with you on your phone. This pivot view will show you the complete list of documents shared with you, letting you open and edit in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Search your SkyDrive documents
  If you store a lot of stuff on SkyDrive, being able to do a quick search is important. In the Office hub, you can easily search across your SkyDrive for the document you need without having to wade through your folders and other files.

To see more screenshots of each of these features, check out the Inside Windows Live Blog and to see SkyDrive's new background uploading and Office Hub integration, watch the two videos embedded below.





Source: Inside Windows Live Blog