A whole raft of updates to Windows Live have started to roll out and that includes the Office Live Web Apps – online versions of Microsoft’s Office applications. They’re available through SkyDrive and any documents that you have on your SkyDrive are available for editing and viewing. If you don’t have a SkyDrive account then you should, it’s 25GB of free online storage and it’s going to become a cornerstone to the Live experience. I use mine for document and photo sharing and it’s simply superb.
One feature that I love, in these days of privacy worries, is how simple to manage sharing is. A slider from lots of sharing to none. Simple. Yet I can also share with individuals, perfect for sharing that killer presentation (or that photo of the BBQ in the comedy apron that you only want attendees to have).
Just noticed something else neat. When a folder or file is shared with individuals by email it gets a different icon…this is private, everyone and specific people respectively.
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Simon is an IT Pro Evangelist for Microsoft UK, everything here is his own thoughts and opinion.
