The Documents library even uses the SkyDrive location as its default write location, so any file saved to the Documents library will automatically go on SkyDrive.
Most office workers won't even notice this. Any time someone hits save in Word, their document is sent directly to the NSA for review. This is like the 'url bar goes to google' problem in Chrome, but 1000x worse.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/0e84...
NB woe provided a correction to this - I (perhaps understandably) confused this feature with SkyDrive for Office, which appears to be something different...
[NB woe's comment is dead, for no obvious reason]
"What's on the other side of that door that's always
locked– the one next to all the servers?"
"In there? Just the blind eyes we get in return for
those .gov contracts. We keep 'em in here so they stay
cool. If you ever happen to see a live one just leave
'im be– the contracts say not to touch those. In fact,
don't mention 'em. Coffee?"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_...
Also there was some info in some recent articles about companies sharing data with the feds being paid to do so. It wasn't just the carriers, although the carriers did get paid the most.
EDIT: assume you only need to sign up for a SkyDrive account. All of the desktop integration is enabled by default.
[1] This is apparently being removed in RTM.
Also at the moment there is not an option to provision an 8.1 machine with a local account as well during the trial period. You must use an online windows account.
> "After contact with Microsoft support he found out that his account was blocked because there was a folder on his SkyDrive that contained content which was not allowed by the code of conduct of Microsoft SkyDrive. The folder was a private folder, not shared to anyone else.
Microsoft reserves the right to suspend an account for any reason, and two months of trying to fix the issue did not result in any resolution."
http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-what-you-store-on-skydriveyou-m...
1. I uploaded a legitimate Office 2010 ISO image to it from MSDN as I was installing it on a non-corporate networked test machine (sandbox). Next day it was gone.
2. I uploaded a few purchased MP3s to it so I could transfer them to work. When I got there, they were gone.
3. I tried to cancel my account. Every cancellation page fails with "I have one or more Microsoft Billing account subscriptions active. Please stop these first". I have never had any paid subscription service and there is nothing listed in Microsoft billing.
4. Attempts to contact support have resulted in sitting on the phone for 4 hours. Email support replies with canned messages. Complaining on forums on their web site has no effect either.
You have been warned.
Don't put your data in it or deal with them, even if you don't care about the NSA stuff.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/skydriv...
Being a long-time luser, I hadn't heard of NTFS reparse points before. Somehow, every time I read something about NTFS features, it strikes me how well thought-out that FS is, especially for its time.
Seems to be from Windows 2000 according to Wikipedia.
I've been burned enough times by "Delayed Write", where you stick a bunch of files on a USB drive, pull it out and hop in the car, while back on your machine it pops up a little box saying "Whoa! hold up! we didn't actually copy any of those files yet, even though we said we had." This seems like another version of that same idea, except this time designed to leave me without any of the music and video I'd "synced" onto my new road machine right before hopping that month-long riverboat down the Congo.
Given a choice, I think I'd prefer that my machine actually did the things with my files that I've told it to do. Copy them when I copy them, sync them when I sync them. I hope there's an option to do that here.
And yes, I know the USB drive scenario, I got burned myself many times.
BTW, can someone share the experience regarding the syncing speed? Lastly I had been evaluating both Dropbox and Skydrive, I found the DB to be quicker to upload modified files - the uploading started almost immediately, which was not the case with Skydrive.
Talking up SkyDrive is like extolling the virtues of ivory from elephant tusks. In both cases there is a horrible hidden cost.
Has anyone tried a solution to mount an online server/drive/storage as a network drive in order to do the same things that this new SkyDrive will do?
Think about it, free, no size or bandwidth restrictions, and if you use encryption they'll probably keep a backup for you, forever.
How Google Drive is less meant to be cloud storage?)