Microsoft to tightly integrate Windows 8 and Sky Drive storage service

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(Free-Press-Release.com) February 24, 2012 -- The goal is for Sky Drive to become a 'single drive' available across all the devices people use Microsoft will extend Sky Drive from being an online file storage service into what the company calls "a device cloud" that is closely integrated with Windows 8, the next version of the company's OS.

The vision is for Sky Drive to become "a single drive" available across all the devices people use, giving them "instant, secure and private access to their files" and letting them share those files with others, Microsoft said in a blog post on Monday.

In Windows 8, the "DNA" of Sky Drive and the Mesh file sync technology will merge into a single service, according to the post, published on the company's "Building Windows 8" blog and authored by Mike Torres and Omar Saline, group program managers for Sky Drive.

Specifically, Sky Drive will be included as an application on Windows 8, Sky Drive files will be accessible from the desktop via Windows Explorer and users will be able to "fetch" files remotely from their hard drive through SkyDrive.com.

The Sky Drive application included with Windows 8 will be a Metro style one, meaning its user interface will be optimized for touch screen-based devices like tablets, and it will make it possible for people to access their Sky Drive accounts from any other Metro style application through Windows 8 controls for opening, saving and sharing files.

"This will bring a file cloud to every Metro style app, allowing you to open files in your Sky Drive and save them right back to your Sky Drive just like you would on your local hard drive," the post reads.

To take advantage of this functionality, end users only need to register an email address on a PC running Windows 8, after which "whenever you save files on Sky Drive, every Windows 8 device you use will provide seamless access to those files," according to the post.

Meanwhile, Windows 8 will also have a traditional desktop application for Sky Drive, to be managed via Windows Explorer and available to desktop applications like Office. Users will be able to store and retrieve Sky Drive files through a drag-and-drop interface.

Through a sync functionality based on Mesh, people will be able to have desktop copies of their Sky Drive files, and synchronize changes so that versions are kept consistent both locally and on the cloud. This desktop version of Sky Drive will also be compatible with devices running both Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Finally, Sky Drive on Windows 8 will also let users remotely access files that they've opted to only store locally on a PC's hard drive, a feature Microsoft developed assuming that not everyone will want to store every file online in Sky Drive.

This remote access via SkyDrive.com will require that users enter a second authentication element -- a code Microsoft will send them to an alternate email address or to their mobile phone.



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