SkyDrive To Become Native Apps On Windows 8, Says Microsoft

Competition in the cloud data storage business, or we might call the "online hard disk" heats up with the announcement of the availability of SkyDrive natively on Windows 8, so without any hestitant now it is official that SkyDrive To Become Native Apps On Windows 8, Says Microsoft.

Microsoft officially announced the availability of 'Metro-style' application SkyDrive on Windows 8 is directly integrated with Windows Explorer, on Monday (2/20/2012).

Skydrive is Microsoft's online storage service that provides data storage capacity of 2 GB on the Internet for free. 

SkyDrive is already long been offered by Microsoft. However, until now SkyDrive only can be accessed from a web browser or application on mobile devices.

Now on Windows 8, Microsoft made ​​the SkyDrive as part of the latest operating system.

So that later, Windows 8 users can directly move or retrieve files from SkyDrive with drag-and-drop, easy access to the data folder on a local hard disk.

With this convenience, users can access Windows 8 files or documents anytime and anywhere, as long as there is Internet access.

SkyDrive application will be available in Windows 8 Consumer Preview Microsoft which will be launched in late February.Not just on Windows 8, this desktop application will also be available on Windows Vista and Windows 7.


Before this really happens lots of people were left wondering what microsoft will do against this already famous cloud internet storage service, so when they know SkyDrive To Become Native Apps On Windows 8, are they glad or else, that is the only mystery that is left to be answered by the number.