Microsoft celebrates the 15th anniversary of OneDrive with an upgrade and new features

Microsoft celebrates the 15th anniversary of OneDrive with an upgrade and new features

Microsoft’s denoting OneDrive’s fifteenth anniversary with a new landing page, called OneDrive Home, and it ought to make it simpler to monitor your work. Rather than showing up on the My records tab when you first open OneDrive, you’ll end up on the new Home page that looks like that dashboard in the online version of Office.

Like the Office web app, OneDrive Home contains a list of your files, organized by how recently you’ve accessed them. Over the list are filters that let you sort your documents by Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF file types.

There’s likewise a new “Activity” column to the right of the “Owner” file field that lets you know when somebody leaves a comment, @ demonstrates another client, or assigns you an errand inside a shared document. On the left half of the Home View, Microsoft is adding a new Quick Access section, where (very much like on Windows) you can find and pin frequently accessed spaces.

Unfortunately, those changes are not yet effective – Microsoft says OneDrive Home will be available in the “coming months”. From what it resembles, the new home page can go about as a central hub that assists you with remaining organized while working together remotely.

Beside its OneDrive web application, Microsoft is likewise carrying out files Photo story feature The OneDrive mobile application (basically OneDrive – what could be compared to Instagram Stories) for clients in Australia. The feature doesn’t arrive at clients in the US or different regions until later this year.