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).
TIP: 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.
