Microsoft SkyDrive
It’s 2011. And I’m using Office 2011 for the Mac.
Why doesn’t Microsoft support some sort of Azure-powered or otherwise cloud-based storage support for Office so that I have access to all my documents everywhere without being a geek who knows how to set up FUSE and a WebDAV server (or, pay for MobileMe and use iDisk, lol)?
Actually, I asked myself this, because it’s not immediately obvious that in actuality, Microsoft *did* include that capability in the form of the SkyDrive.
What I do have to ask is, why isn’t it the *default* way you save documents…? It’s still very clunky in the way you use it in the different apps (you have to log back into skydrive for every app oh wait, just add your password to the OS X Keychain. boom, done.), especially in the nonintuitive way of saving (you “share” the document into skydrive). Opening is also a pain, and I got a Javascript error trying to open a Word Notebook file from Skydrive using the Document Connection app. :(
Anyway, kudos to Microsoft for at least trying to do the right thing, and I’m really enjoying the new look. If they can get the cloud storage stuff right, these apps are a lot better to use than Google Docs (sadly). Here’s hoping that they improve sharepoint, or better yet, make it a free SaaS…
