New Features Hit Windows Live SkyDrive Today

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The Windows Live SkyDrive Team just announced several updates to Windows Live SkyDrive which begin happening today.

Using Silverlight, you can now arrange your photos within a SkyDrive Folder just the way you want them. All you need to do is choose “Sort” in a folder with photos and select “Arrange photos”.

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The new “Arrange photos” feature isn’t the first feature on Windows Live SkyDrive to use Silverlight – the Slide show feature for your photos also uses Silverlight to showcase your photos in a nice way. 

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You also have the ability to sort your files (including your photos) by name, size, date, or type.

There is also upcoming changes to profiles on Windows Live (to accommodate easily accessing photos of your friends) as well as Windows Live Favorites too! Again, you can get the lowdown on today’s update here from the SkyDrive Team.

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  1. dovella
    Posted on: April 14, 2009 at 4:22PM  

    WOW, Awesome!!

    Thanks

  2. bjmerri
    Posted on: April 14, 2009 at 6:03PM  

    OK, but it won't be of much use to me until there is a bulk upload available.  At just a few photos at a time, why bother.

  3. newscientist2000
    Posted on: April 15, 2009 at 12:59AM  

    Great, that was one of the main features I wanted in Skydrive, very cool.

  4. gcoupe
    Posted on: April 15, 2009 at 1:25AM  

    Well, it's not before time, but nevertheless nice to finally get it. Now, can we also have the ability to sort Albums, please?

  5. rangerevo8
    Posted on: April 15, 2009 at 3:00AM  

    not bad this one, looking forward for more improvement in SkyDrive~

  6. Wolfie2k9
    Posted on: April 15, 2009 at 4:24AM  

    @ Brandon -

    SWEET! Sounds great!

    @ bjmerri -

    You can bulk upload with Windows Live Photo Gallery - select a bunch of pictures, Click Publish and tell it where to put them.

  7. brio
    Posted on: April 15, 2009 at 10:11AM  

    This stuff sounds great....:)

    The only thing I miss is that everything of your live-account is saved on skydrive. E.g. office-live has its own "hard-drive". This (and maybe the live-mails too) could be easily saved on skydrive. Then the whole thing would be perfect :)

    mfg brio

  8. 7flavor
    Posted on: April 15, 2009 at 12:33PM  

    Feature Wish:

    1. Direct WebDAV/FTP access, to be able to mount as a drive in Windows Explorer with no limits on individual file sizes.

    2. Live Mesh uses SkyDrive as storage when its 5 GB gets full.

  9. Brock
    Posted on: April 16, 2009 at 11:44AM  

    Add the seadragon interface into skydrive (or Silverlight) and you'll have an absolute winner.

    But otherwise I'm waiting for SkyDrive to simply become a 'mapped external network drive' in my Computer directory, so that I'm able to use explorer to communicate with the server, similar to Live Desktop.

    Until then, I can deal with saving everything locally.

  10. tad1073
    Posted on: May 04, 2009 at 6:06AM  

    Now all we need is a folder on our local machine that will sync, w/skydrive.

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