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Today you might take notice to a few cool changes in Windows Live SkyDrive. The Windows Live SkyDrive Team has released an update bringing the following new features for our enjoyment:
  • Users can now leave comments on files.
  • New Recent Comments page for comments left recently on files shared in Windows Live SkyDrive.
  • Users now have the ability to leave descriptions on files (captions for photos).
  • Ability to manage favorite websites in Windows Live SkyDrive.
  • New navigation control (called the "browsing widget") to navigate between files in a folder.
  • Ability to change folder views from "icon view" to "detailed view". For photos you have the added "photo thumbnails" view.

You can read about today's release on the Windows Live SkyDrive Team Blog as well!

I went ahead and shot a demo video of today's new features in Windows Live SkyDrive showing off the capabilities these new features bring to users. Check it out below.


Video: Demo: Windows Live SkyDrive 5-22-08

Windows Live SkyDrive will also become available in 24 new countries today: Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand, Ukraine, Venezuela, Serbia, Indonesia and Malaysia.

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  1. dovella
    Posted on: May 22, 2008 at 1:50PM  

    Good News :D

    thx brandon

  2. david.soles
    Posted on: May 22, 2008 at 2:06PM  

    An incredible usefull new feature would be the ability to reorganize the files between folders. By the way, Microsoft should integrate all Windows Live Products into Windows Live Hotmail interface. That would be great.

  3. chakkaradeep
    Posted on: May 22, 2008 at 5:17PM  

    Excellent news!

  4. newscientist2000
    Posted on: May 23, 2008 at 1:22AM  

    Great new features, I agree with david though that Skydrive does need some way to easily reorganize and move files around.

    Still these changes are making Skydrive more and more like a familiar extension of the Windows OS, and thats a good thing.

    Brandon What did you use to capture the video?  Snagit?

  5. wisher
    Posted on: May 23, 2008 at 11:27AM  

    Why SkyDrive wasn't merged with Live Mesh?

    Altaught the service are quite different I think that an integration would have been a killer application.

  6. Brandon LeBlanc
    Microsoft
    Posted on: May 23, 2008 at 5:05PM  

    wisher, Live Mesh is only a tech preview - that essentially means its pre-Beta. With Live Mesh not even at the Beta state yet, it isn't designed for broad consumption by the general consumer just yet - while SkyDrive today is. Its far too early to see services like SkyDrive start integrating with Live Mesh although you can assume the teams have been talking ;-) Thanks for your feedback!

    newscientist2000, I used Camtasia Studio 5 to record the video.

    Thanks,

    Brandon

  7. Saumil Mehta
    Posted on: October 28, 2008 at 12:32PM  

    Hello, Please integrate SkyDrive folder accessbility within Windows Live Desktop client software.

    If implemented, they complement each other very nicely.

    Thanks!

    - Saumil

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