Microsoft Launches new HTML5 SkyDrive
Today, Microsoft launches its newSkyDrive website, a cloud version for consumers. The new version takes advantage of modern browsers and HTML5 and CSS3 to improve speed, easy of navigation and beautiful dynamic fluid photo rendering . The site displays the familiar Windows File structure for intuitiveness.
The new site has full hardware acceleration to take advantage newer computer—on the new site navigating photo albums down from "6-9 seconds" to "100-300 milliseconds". In IE9, and Windows 7, SkyDrive has the ability to be pinned to the taskbar for quick access, too.
Users can use SkyDrive to get access to their content from anywhere including on the mobile device starting with Windows Phone. Users can collaborate on Office docs, and share photos.
For the relaunch, Microsoft has increased the single file size limit to 100MB, each user can have up to 25GB capacity on SkyDrive.
It is good to know that Windows Live Mesh, which is Microsoft’s desktop synchronization software can be used to .seamlessly put your files on SkyDrive.
Read the Windows Live Blog for more details
Check out here: skydrive.live.com
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