Yesterday Microsoft released a new version of SkyDrive (New Windows Live SkyDrive : Features and Review ) built using HTML5 for the modern web.
For those who are interested in the nitty gritty, here’s the changelog as provided by the SkyDrive team -
SkyDrive ver 16.0 (Build 1648.0617)
Site -
- New layout, look and feel and site architecture
- SSL enabled on all authenticated pages
- Clean URLs (Removed most of the junk from the URLs)
- SkyDrive can now be pinned to your Windows 7 taskbar with jumplists (IE9)
- Header now says SkyDrive
- What’s new feed for docs and photos removed
- Upload file size limit now 100 MB
- Moved to edge-to-edge layout to take advantage of larger screens
- Reduced size of Header to give more room to your content
- New mobile views for all Photos / Docs experiences
Photos -
- Brand new Photos experience
- HTML 5 Videos playback
- Thumbnails generated for H.264 video
- CSS3 Transitions for albums and 1-up view
- Photo album thumbnails now “pulse”
- Thumbnails generated for all photo sizes (previously limited to 5000px)
- Support for aspect ratio thumbnails (including panorama)
Docs -
- Icons for PDFs filetypes
- Recent document includes more items
- Open in Office Client from SkyDrive now gives you the option to install Office 2010 trial using Click-to-Run technology
- Performance improvements to the Office Web Apps in IE9
- Details view now supports touch
Groups -
- SkyDrive Groups now appear in the left nav giving you one click access to Group Content
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