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Last month we expelled preview versions of SkyDrive for Windows as good as OS X Lion, along with large updates to a iOS as good as Windows Phone apps. We additionally voiced a new, some-more stretchable approach to personal clouded cover storage which allows energy users to get one some-more paid storage up to 100GB.

It’s been an implausible month since! Our idea was to set up a clouded cover which seamlessly connects your files to a apps as good as inclination we make use of each day, as good as we’ve been anxious with a reply so far. In only a couple of weeks, some-more people were regulating SkyDrive apps than have used Mesh. People regulating SkyDrive for Windows or Mac have been right away a most intent users – syncing files opposite multiform devices, sharing with SkyDrive.com, as good as operative together with Office Web Apps. At a same time, we go upon to attend as good as reply to your feedback opposite forums, blogs, Twitter, as good as Facebook.

We not long ago rolled out an refurbish to a SkyDrive app for Windows Phone which bound a couple of teenager bugs, as good as we have a tiny bug-fix-only refurbish to a iOS app upon a approach as well. Today we’re additionally starting to pull updates to a SkyDrive apps for Windows desktop as good as for Mac, which will crop up automatically upon your Personal Computer or Mac over a march of a subsequent week or so. You don’t need to do anything, as a updates start automatically in a background.

Here have been a couple of of a improvements as good as fixes in a updates:

• SkyDrive for Windows desktop will energy a cold brand new underline in a arriving Windows 8 Release Preview, accessible a initial week of June. Right from a Photos app in Windows 8, we can fetch photos stored upon your alternative PCs which have SkyDrive commissioned – no make a difference where we have been or how most terabytes of photos we have stored upon a Personal Computer we have been accessing. We’ll have some-more to contend about this shortly, so stay tuned.
• SkyDrive for OS X Lion no longer shows an app idol in a wharf when running. We’ve unequivocally listened a feedback which it wasn’t necessary.
• Your SkyDrive printed matter right away updates some-more quick as good as reliably when changes have been done upon alternative devices, together with SkyDrive.com.
• The extent upon a series of sum files in a SkyDrive printed matter combined by a apps has been lifted from 150,000 to a whopping 10 million! This should unblock a little energy users from simply adding lots of files to their SkyDrive folder.
• We done lots of not as big bug fixes to urge altogether reliability.

Our first idea via this preview duration for a desktop apps is to unequivocally spike a fundamentals. This equates to we wish a synchronization routine to be quick as good as dependable, as good as for your SkyDrive printed matter to “just work,” so which it simply feels similar to magic.

By a way, if you’d similar to to see if you’re using a ultimate build, we can see a set up series by clicking Settings (in Windows, this is in a right-click menu for a SkyDrive complement tray icon, as good as upon a Mac, it’s upon a focus menu) as good as afterwards About. The set up series to demeanour for is 16.4.4111.0525. But again, if you’re still using an comparison set up (if a final 4 numbers have been reduce than 0525), there’s zero we need to do. You’ll get a refurbish automatically in a subsequent week or so, supposing a SkyDrive app is running.

Thanks for all of your await as good as good feedback over a final month!

Mike Torres
Group Program Manager, SkyDrive Apps

Last month we expelled preview versions of SkyDrive for Windows as good as OS X Lion, along with large updates to a iOS as good as Windows Phone apps. We additionally voiced a new, some-more stretchable approach to personal clouded cover storage which allows energy users to get one some-more paid storage up to 100GB.

It’s been an implausible month since! Our idea was to set up a clouded cover which seamlessly connects your files to a apps as good as inclination we make use of each day, as good as we’ve been anxious with a reply so far. In only a couple of weeks, some-more people were regulating SkyDrive apps than have used Mesh. People regulating SkyDrive for Windows or Mac have been right away a most intent users – syncing files opposite multiform devices, sharing with SkyDrive.com, as good as operative together with Office Web Apps. At a same time, we go upon to attend as good as reply to your feedback opposite forums, blogs, Twitter, as good as Facebook.

We not long ago rolled out an refurbish to a SkyDrive app for Windows Phone which bound a couple of teenager bugs, as good as we have a tiny bug-fix-only refurbish to a iOS app upon a approach as well. Today we’re additionally starting to pull updates to a SkyDrive apps for Windows desktop as good as for Mac, which will crop up automatically upon your Personal Computer or Mac over a march of a subsequent week or so. You don’t need to do anything, as a updates start automatically in a background.

Here have been a couple of of a improvements as good as fixes in a updates:

• SkyDrive for Windows desktop will energy a cold brand new underline in a arriving Windows 8 Release Preview, accessible a initial week of June. Right from a Photos app in Windows 8, we can fetch photos stored upon your alternative PCs which have SkyDrive commissioned – no make a difference where we have been or how most terabytes of photos we have stored upon a Personal Computer we have been accessing. We’ll have some-more to contend about this shortly, so stay tuned.
• SkyDrive for OS X Lion no longer shows an app idol in a wharf when running. We’ve unequivocally listened a feedback which it wasn’t necessary.
• Your SkyDrive printed matter right away updates some-more quick as good as reliably when changes have been done upon alternative devices, together with SkyDrive.com.
• The extent upon a series of sum files in a SkyDrive printed matter combined by a apps has been lifted from 150,000 to a whopping 10 million! This should unblock a little energy users from simply adding lots of files to their SkyDrive folder.
• We done lots of not as big bug fixes to urge altogether reliability.

Our first idea via this preview duration for a desktop apps is to unequivocally spike a fundamentals. This equates to we wish a synchronization routine to be quick as good as dependable, as good as for your SkyDrive printed matter to “just work,” so which it simply feels similar to magic.

By a way, if you’d similar to to see if you’re using a ultimate build, we can see a set up series by clicking Settings (in Windows, this is in a right-click menu for a SkyDrive complement tray icon, as good as upon a Mac, it’s upon a focus menu) as good as afterwards About. The set up series to demeanour for is 16.4.4111.0525. But again, if you’re still using an comparison set up (if a final 4 numbers have been reduce than 0525), there’s zero we need to do. You’ll get a refurbish automatically in a subsequent week or so, supposing a SkyDrive app is running.

Thanks for all of your await as good as good feedback over a final month!

Mike Torres
Group Program Manager, SkyDrive Apps

Last month we expelled preview versions of SkyDrive for Windows as good as OS X Lion, along with large updates to a iOS as good as Windows Phone apps. We additionally voiced a new, some-more stretchable approach to personal clouded cover storage which allows energy users to get one some-more paid storage up to 100GB.

It’s been an implausible month since! Our idea was to set up a clouded cover which seamlessly connects your files to a apps as good as inclination we make use of each day, as good as we’ve been anxious with a reply so far. In only a couple of weeks, some-more people were regulating SkyDrive apps than have used Mesh. People regulating SkyDrive for Windows or Mac have been right away a most intent users – syncing files opposite multiform devices, sharing with SkyDrive.com, as good as operative together with Office Web Apps. At a same time, we go upon to attend as good as reply to your feedback opposite forums, blogs, Twitter, as good as Facebook.

We not long ago rolled out an refurbish to a SkyDrive app for Windows Phone which bound a couple of teenager bugs, as good as we have a tiny bug-fix-only refurbish to a iOS app upon a approach as well. Today we’re additionally starting to pull updates to a SkyDrive apps for Windows desktop as good as for Mac, which will crop up automatically upon your Personal Computer or Mac over a march of a subsequent week or so. You don’t need to do anything, as a updates start automatically in a background.

Here have been a couple of of a improvements as good as fixes in a updates:

• SkyDrive for Windows desktop will energy a cold brand new underline in a arriving Windows 8 Release Preview, accessible a initial week of June. Right from a Photos app in Windows 8, we can fetch photos stored upon your alternative PCs which have SkyDrive commissioned – no make a difference where we have been or how most terabytes of photos we have stored upon a Personal Computer we have been accessing. We’ll have some-more to contend about this shortly, so stay tuned.
• SkyDrive for OS X Lion no longer shows an app idol in a wharf when running. We’ve unequivocally listened a feedback which it wasn’t necessary.
• Your SkyDrive printed matter right away updates some-more quick as good as reliably when changes have been done upon alternative devices, together with SkyDrive.com.
• The extent upon a series of sum files in a SkyDrive printed matter combined by a apps has been lifted from 150,000 to a whopping 10 million! This should unblock a little energy users from simply adding lots of files to their SkyDrive folder.
• We done lots of not as big bug fixes to urge altogether reliability.

Our first idea via this preview duration for a desktop apps is to unequivocally spike a fundamentals. This equates to we wish a synchronization routine to be quick as good as dependable, as good as for your SkyDrive printed matter to “just work,” so which it simply feels similar to magic.

By a way, if you’d similar to to see if you’re using a ultimate build, we can see a set up series by clicking Settings (in Windows, this is in a right-click menu for a SkyDrive complement tray icon, as good as upon a Mac, it’s upon a focus menu) as good as afterwards About. The set up series to demeanour for is 16.4.4111.0525. But again, if you’re still using an comparison set up (if a final 4 numbers have been reduce than 0525), there’s zero we need to do. You’ll get a refurbish automatically in a subsequent week or so, supposing a SkyDrive app is running.

Thanks for all of your await as good as good feedback over a final month!

Mike Torres
Group Program Manager, SkyDrive Apps

Your phone’s camera usually got a lot some-more exciting. Capping an considerable month for Marketplace (back to which in a second), a giveaway as well as much-anticipated Photosynth app for Windows Phone has arrived. Download it now

What’s Photosynth? Simply put, it’s a Microsoft record for formulating stately 3D panoramas from plain aged 2D shots. Although which outline doesn’t utterly do probity to how enchanting Photosynth is. Marketplace is already home to multiform plain scenery apps. But as a Photosynth group notes upon a blog today, there’s zero out there utterly similar to this: It’s a usually mobile app which can square together a full breathtaking globe (that’s 360 degrees horizontally and vertically.)

Originally dreamed up by a patrol of PhDs during Microsoft Research, Photosynth cleverly sews together your apart snapshots in to a single immersive scene, recreating a play as well as item of what your eyes essentially see. It’s tough to conclude until we see a couple of “synths” for yourself. This a single of Pulpit Rock in Norway gives me a heebie-jeebies when we vessel down. Other favorites embody Machu Picchu as well as a Seattle Japanese Garden.

The brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Windows Phone app (pictured below) creates it easy to emanate synths of your own, afterwards tell your scenery to a Photosynth site or share it around Facebook as well as Twitter. Check out a Bing as well as Next during Microsoft blogs for some-more upon a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new app.

Speaking of large pictures, Photosynth wasn’t a usually sparkling Marketplace headlines this month. In box we longed for it, a march of vital brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new apps as well as app updates go upon to hurl in. Other important brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new May additions enclosed LinkedIn as well as AboutOne, a renouned family organizer as well as Windows Phone exclusive. The central Facebook app for Windows Phone usually perceived a brawny update. So did WhatsApp, which combined a form design choice we won’t now find upon a iPhone or Android versions. That’s right: Some developers have been introducing brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new facilities upon a Windows Phone chronicle of their app first.

There’s additionally good things upon a way, as Nokia made clear progressing this month. Rovio’s Angry Birds Space as well as EA titles together with Madden NFL, NBA Jam, as well as Tiger Woods PGA TOUR have been all en route. Ditto for PayPal as well as TIME Magazine apps. Nokia is additionally backing up Lumia-exclusive versions of apps similar to ESPN as well as Groupon which have been already accessible in Marketplace.

Finally, there have been a handful of alternative efforts underway which Marketplace shoppers will appreciate. I’ve referred to a growing list of 99-cent Xbox LIVE games in alternative posts. Ongoing behind-the-scenes improvements, meanwhile, have been written to have tip apps simpler to find when we search.

Summer—not to discuss Father’s Day as well as graduation season—is right around the corner, as well as this week’s Windows Phone highlights post facilities the garland of stories as well as tips to assistance we have the many of it. What were your the the single preferred reads this week?

Consumer Reports calls Lumia 900 the tip present buy

Looking for the good present for your father or the the single preferred grad? Consumer Reports’ wiring experts this week endorsed Nokia’s Lumia 900 in the summer tech present guide. Read the article. Last month the repository called Nokia’s flagship indication “the most appropriate Windows Phone so far”.

10 tips for receiving improved photos

Speaking of the Lumia 900, the single of the standout facilities is the built-in 8-megapixel camera as well as Carl Zeiss lens. But as Nokia’s central blog remarkable this week, even torpedo camera specs aren’t regularly sufficient to grasp Annie Leibovitz-like results. So the Nokia Conversations organisation phoned up remarkable Dutch photographer, author, as well as censor Haje Jam Kamps for the little recommendation upon receiving improved shots. See his tip 10 tips. While his recommendation is tailored privately for Lumia owners, the little tips request no make the difference what Windows Phone you’re pocketing.

What’s the most appropriate Windows Phone moody sim?

The Windows Phone Marketplace bonds multiform good moody simulators as well as games—which begs the question: If we usually have time for one, which should we get? Well, the courageous writers during the back of the Nokia Conversations blog selflessly volunteered to outlay the week mountainous the practical skies to answer this age-old question. See which sims surfaced their list

5 apps for removing in figure

It’s Memorial Day week end in the U.S.—the unaccepted kick-off for summer. If your physique isn’t utterly showering fit ready nonetheless (or you’re only seeking to save upon pricey personal tutor sessions), we competence wish to check out these good aptness apps in Marketplace. Reviewer Jeppe promises these 5 apps will safeguard “you’re striding opposite which beach seeking photoshopped.” See the list

And finally….Flo Rida as well as his Lu-mia

Our sagacious friends during WMPowerUser this week spotted renouned rapper Flo Rida gnawing pics as well as texting his posse upon the Nokia Lumia 900 in the brand brand brand new video for “Whistle.” If Flo Rida looks comfortable, it’s substantially since it’s not his initial time upon the Lumia: The 710 showed up in the video for his balance “Wild Ones.” Watch the Whistle video

I know most of we have been energetically expecting a newest chronicle of a central Facebook app, that we teased final month (on Facebook, natch.)

Well, a wait for is over: The update—version 2.5, officially—just showed up in Marketplace as well as carries a little juicy additions. Most of we substantially already have this app in your arsenal. If not, what improved time to squeeze it. Here’s a little of what’s brand brand new or improved:

• Threaded messaging: Full Facebook threaded messaging, together with organisation messaging.
• Better tagging: Now we can tab friends as well as locations in your posts in a “with” as well as “at” format.
• Wall cleanup: Use daub as well as reason to undo posts as well as comments from your Wall.
• Hot links: Links in posts have been right away tappable.
• More to “Like”: You can right away Like comments,

Download Facebook 2.5

P.S. If you’re incompetent to download a brand brand new app or refurbish a a single upon your phone, have certain your phone has Windows Phone 7.5 installed, See this post for some-more sum or Update Central for designation instructions.

We consider a Start shade is flattering sweet. But have we ever seen a baked sweat bread done similar to a Windows Phone? Our fans have shared a couple of upon Facebook, so we suspicion it’d be fun to chuck a competition for a many appropriate Windows Phone desirous cake.

You can contention a baked sweat bread as well as opinion for your a one preferred upon a Cake Contest Facebook page. So pre-heat your oven or call a bakery, since a tip 3 cakes with a many likes will win a code brand new Windows Phone.      

Here’s how to enter:

1. Create a Windows Phone-inspired cake.
2. Submit a print of your baked sweat bread upon a Cake Contest Facebook page. (You can additionally contention a print of a baked sweat bread we done in a past, as prolonged as you’re a baker.)

Entries contingency be perceived by Wednesday, May 30. Voting ends Jun 6. Our lawyers pinned a contest’s central manners here upon SkyDrive, if we wish to check them out. (Click View Folder if we don’t see them immediately.)

We can’t wait for to see your creations. Good luck!

Today’s the day. This afternoon we proposed requiring Windows Phone 7.5 upon phones to download, buy, update, or examination apps in Marketplace. As I’ve created previously, this shift relates to both the phone as well as web Marketplace storefronts. (If you’re only tuning in, greatfully review my progressing post for the full sum upon since we’re implementing this brand brand new requirement.)

Most phones have been already using Windows Phone 7.5, which was expelled final fall, as well as so many of we won’t notice anything opposite about how the Marketplace works. However, if your phone has an progressing chronicle of the program installed, you’ll shortly begin saying an blunder summary when we try to download the brand brand new app, or refurbish the single we already own. (I contend “soon” since it will take the day or dual for the changes we done currently to take effect.)

If we do get the error, all we need to do is implement the giveaway Windows Phone 7.5 update. You’ll find all the report we need to do that, together with an refurbish checklist as well as easy step-by-step instructions, upon Update Central. (Not certain if we have Windows Phone 7.5 installed? Here’s how to check.)

By the way, even if we don’t make use of Marketplace, there have been still lots of good reasons to update. We done hundreds of improvements, large as well as small, in Windows Phone 7.5. Here’s only the sampling of what we mean. So I’d inspire we to set in reserve time to refurbish your phone for which reason alone.

If you’re similar to many people, when we share files around SkyDrive we typically do so without delay around email. This is the single reason we built the continuous residence book, bringing together your friends’ addresses opposite Facebook, Google, as well as LinkedIn.  Another benefit: when we share photos around email, your friends get the pleasing email with thumbnail previews.

Back in December, we combined an additional approach to share. You can get the couple to any record or printed matter upon SkyDrive as well as send which couple to friends. You can select to let friends revise or supplement files, or select to have the couple read-only. Since then, SkyDrive users have combined over thirteen million links—copying as well as pasting them in to their the one preferred apps or services.

While this underline has been popular, we’ve additionally gotten the lot of feedback which the links have been as well prolonged as well as as well ugly. We agree!

Sharing with links only got the bit friendlier:

• We’ve condensed the unchanging URLs by 40%. Our prior URLs didn’t even fit inside the Tweet! Oh the shame!
• You can digest them even serve interjection to the brand brand new partnership with bitly as well as the brand brand new domain for condensed SkyDrive URLs: http://sdrv.ms
• We’ve combined OpenGraph await to the URLs so which when we pulp them in to places similar to Facebook, the good thumbnail preview gets generated

Shorter links

As we can see in the Share dialog, there is the Shorten button

Shortening regulating the own law domain

Clicking the symbol will outcome in the really reduced URL regulating the SDRV.MS domain

Support for OpenGraph for couple previews

If we duplicate which URL to Facebook you’ll see the nicer preview

Stats upon your reduced links

Since bitly powers the shortener, we additionally get good energy features. For example, we can supplement the ‘+’ to the finish of any reduced URL to see statistics. You can additionally beget the QR formula for which URL by appending ’.qrcode’ to which URL.

We goal we suffer these changes, as well as interjection for regulating SkyDrive!

Omar Shahine
Group Program Manager, SkyDrive.com

If you’re similar to many people, when we share files around SkyDrive we typically do so without delay around email. This is the single reason we built the continuous residence book, bringing together your friends’ addresses opposite Facebook, Google, as well as LinkedIn.  Another benefit: when we share photos around email, your friends get the pleasing email with thumbnail previews.

Back in December, we combined an additional approach to share. You can get the couple to any record or printed matter upon SkyDrive as well as send which couple to friends. You can select to let friends revise or supplement files, or select to have the couple read-only. Since then, SkyDrive users have combined over thirteen million links—copying as well as pasting them in to their the one preferred apps or services.

While this underline has been popular, we’ve additionally gotten the lot of feedback which the links have been as well prolonged as well as as well ugly. We agree!

Sharing with links only got the bit friendlier:

• We’ve condensed the unchanging URLs by 40%. Our prior URLs didn’t even fit inside the Tweet! Oh the shame!
• You can digest them even serve interjection to the brand brand new partnership with bitly as well as the brand brand new domain for condensed SkyDrive URLs: http://sdrv.ms
• We’ve combined OpenGraph await to the URLs so which when we pulp them in to places similar to Facebook, the good thumbnail preview gets generated

Shorter links

As we can see in the Share dialog, there is the Shorten button

Shortening regulating the own law domain

Clicking the symbol will outcome in the really reduced URL regulating the SDRV.MS domain

Support for OpenGraph for couple previews

If we duplicate which URL to Facebook you’ll see the nicer preview

Stats upon your reduced links

Since bitly powers the shortener, we additionally get good energy features. For example, we can supplement the ‘+’ to the finish of any reduced URL to see statistics. You can additionally beget the QR formula for which URL by appending ’.qrcode’ to which URL.

We goal we suffer these changes, as well as interjection for regulating SkyDrive!

Omar Shahine
Group Program Manager, SkyDrive.com