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– Most people think the content is more important than the device itself. Therefore it is important for us to let our users to have their content available regardless of what device they use, says Anne Jensen, responsible for cloud service Onedrive Microsoft Norway.

now change Microsoft’s online storage service Skydrive name to Onedrive. Concurrent with the name change also relaunched the site with new features and subscription models.

– Most of our 300 million users employ three to four gigabytes of storage in the cloud. Therefore, we give seven gigabytes free. If you need more you can increase the quota by referring friends or buying more space, says Jensen.

Anne Jensen is responsible for the cloud Onedrive in Norway.

Something new
Essentially Onedrive same service Skydrive. One can store photos, videos or documents in an encrypted online storage and retrieve or display the contents on almost all computers, tablets or smartphones. Onedrive is integrated as part of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, but can also be used in tablets and smartphones with Android or IOS (Apple).

Onedrive is integrated with the Service Office Online – a web-based free version of Microsoft Office, so you do not need to have an Office app or Office installed on your PC to view documents, spreadsheets or presentations . Do you share documents with other changes other users make øybelikkelig be available to all.

A brand new technology in Onedrive is transcoding video. Videos you have stored in Onedrive can streamed to a device, and with transcoding, the quality of the video change from what bandwidth you have where you are. Thus one should get uninterrupted streaming of video, with a quality that is adapted to the bandwidth and the video screen is displayed.

This is the same technology that NRK and TV2 uses in its flow services.

Onedrive also got some new features for sorting and displaying images, especially for those who have large amounts of images stored. It’s also easy to share photos or documents with others, with different privacy settings. Onedrive can also automatically upload a copy of all pictures you take, regardless of which phone you use.

New subscription model
For those who pay for extra storage subscription model has become somewhat easier. Previously you had to pay for one year in advance, now you can pay on a monthly basis.

– This is convenient for those who need extra space for a while. When you stop paying for the extra space disappears nothing of what you have stored, you only lose the ability to upload more, says Jensen.

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