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Using OneDrive (formerly called Skydrive)

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Using OneDrive (formerly called Skydrive)

If you're a Windows 8 user like me, you probably have a SkyDrive app, sitting out here on your Start. The SkyDrive is actually connected to your Microsoft account, whether that's a Live account, or a Hotmail account. But it's a place that you can store information that then is synchronized across your devices. If you have a desktop, it can be there, if you have a laptop, if you have a surface tablet, any of those places can share this Document Library. So, that's your personal SkyDrive connected to a Microsoft account. To confuse matters, Microsoft uses exactly the same name for another SkyDrive, that isn't your personal SkyDrive connected to Microsoft, but is your personal SkyDrive in Microsoft SharePoint. This SkyDrive, is actually called SkyDrive Pro, and it lives right here. So, think of this as your organizational SkyDrive, your business SkyDrive if you prefer. When I click on SkyDrive, I have the ability to store documents here. And every document that I place here, that I don't…

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