One thing they need to fix for this to work for business though is the sync client for Onedrive for Business. It doesn't offer per file or per folder selective sync. So if you want to sync your files you get ALL of them. Makes it very hard to use all this space. They need to move it over to the native Windows 8.1 Onedrive sync that is wayyyyy more capable
It does allow selective synch. I can choose which folder on my Windows 8.1 laptop syncs to the cloud and I can do the same thing on my tablet. I can even choose which file gets synced. In the Windows 8.1 folder, there is a column called availability and you can right click and select if a file is sync or online only.
What you just described is OneDrive in Windows 8.1. Those features are NOT available for OneDrive For Business. That is the problem. My post states this exactly.
Dropbox's plan is priced competetively, as long as you need 1TB of space. IMO, it's still the easiest system to use. Of course, with people like Condozolla Rice on the board of directors for Dropbox, their politics (wrt. freedom from spying) are questionable.
Once you remove restrictions on capacity, flexibility and ease of use become king and OneDrive needs some work here with its stick it in the OneDrive folder or forget it atitude. Surely it is time for a right click and enable OneDrive functionality?
I was probably going to get the Home version soon anyway, this just makes it all the more enticing (not that I'll likely have a single user over 1TB in the cloud anytime soon). It's going to be interesting to see what this does to Dropbox & Box over the next 2 years or so as existing contracts expire (including corp). Now they just need a slightly higher priced tier that rolls in Windows too...
I still don't see the point in that, save for storing a ton of email. OneDrive doesn't even work on Windows 8.1 (they broke it, now you'd have to log in with a Microsoft account to your OWN machine, which is obviously nuts). And what good does this do without the ability to use it as a drive and do backups to it or the like?
Good news and also helpful feature for office use .It will provide unlimited storage means you don't have to need worry about storage capacity and management in office use ......
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skiboysteve - Monday, October 27, 2014 - link
Very happy about this. Very competitive.One thing they need to fix for this to work for business though is the sync client for Onedrive for Business. It doesn't offer per file or per folder selective sync. So if you want to sync your files you get ALL of them. Makes it very hard to use all this space. They need to move it over to the native Windows 8.1 Onedrive sync that is wayyyyy more capable
titaniumalloy - Monday, October 27, 2014 - link
It does allow selective synch. I can choose which folder on my Windows 8.1 laptop syncs to the cloud and I can do the same thing on my tablet. I can even choose which file gets synced. In the Windows 8.1 folder, there is a column called availability and you can right click and select if a file is sync or online only.skiboysteve - Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - link
What you just described is OneDrive in Windows 8.1. Those features are NOT available for OneDrive For Business. That is the problem. My post states this exactly.MyrddinE - Monday, October 27, 2014 - link
Dropbox offers 1TB, not 100GB. That upgrade went through last quarter. You are using an old pricing sheet.Brett Howse - Monday, October 27, 2014 - link
Meant to edit that thanks!MyrddinE - Monday, October 27, 2014 - link
Dropbox's plan is priced competetively, as long as you need 1TB of space. IMO, it's still the easiest system to use. Of course, with people like Condozolla Rice on the board of directors for Dropbox, their politics (wrt. freedom from spying) are questionable.Alexvrb - Monday, October 27, 2014 - link
"Their politics" snort. With Spybama in office, do you think it matters who is on their board? You need to pass that joint already! :Ddeeksterjay - Monday, October 27, 2014 - link
The restore window is one year according to this link: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/delete...Alexvrb - Monday, October 27, 2014 - link
I'd say a year is far more than sufficient. Their Office 365 plans are really panning out to be bargains!lorribot - Monday, October 27, 2014 - link
Once you remove restrictions on capacity, flexibility and ease of use become king and OneDrive needs some work here with its stick it in the OneDrive folder or forget it atitude. Surely it is time for a right click and enable OneDrive functionality?althaz - Monday, October 27, 2014 - link
Wowzers.Now MS just needs a sneakernet upload option.
Bob Todd - Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - link
I was probably going to get the Home version soon anyway, this just makes it all the more enticing (not that I'll likely have a single user over 1TB in the cloud anytime soon). It's going to be interesting to see what this does to Dropbox & Box over the next 2 years or so as existing contracts expire (including corp). Now they just need a slightly higher priced tier that rolls in Windows too...hrrmph - Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - link
OneDrive has a Blackberry client app.XJDHDR - Sunday, November 2, 2014 - link
I was going to say the same thing. BlackBerry has had a client for OneDrive for over 9 months now.I wonder why the article's author hasn't corrected this error yet though? Is it because he hasn't seen this comment or does he not care?
Wolfpup - Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - link
I still don't see the point in that, save for storing a ton of email. OneDrive doesn't even work on Windows 8.1 (they broke it, now you'd have to log in with a Microsoft account to your OWN machine, which is obviously nuts). And what good does this do without the ability to use it as a drive and do backups to it or the like?johnethan - Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - link
Good news and also helpful feature for office use .It will provide unlimited storage means you don'thave to need worry about storage capacity and management in office use ......
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