OneDrive Turns 15, Gets Updated Home Screen and Stories Feature

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Microsoft Sync, Windows Live Mesh, SkyDrive—Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud storage and syncing service has undergone several name and function changes since first appearing on the scene 15 years ago(Opens in a new window). But in those years, the service has become a highly functional, reliable, well-oiled component in the Windows engine.

In honor of the anniversary, Microsoft is announcing yet another step in OneDrive’s evolution: a redesigned home screen for the service on the web, OneDrive Home.

The service has gone from Mesh, which involved complex folder-to-folder mapping of all your file folders on all your devices (similar to what SugarSync still does), to a neater system resembling that used by Dropbox, in which the synced folders all live under a single local master folder that’s synced to the cloud. Apps for most major platforms are provided—in addition to Windows 10 and 11, you can install capable apps for OneDrive on Android, macOS, iOS, and even Chrome OS.

If you want to use by far the best office productivity suite, you can have all your work automatically synced with OneDrive, which also makes collaborative editing possible. So, when I start writing an article on my PC, if I save to OneDrive, I can head over to the living room couch and open Word on my smartphone to add text and edit the article. Changes show up right away as the most recently worked-on document. For office situations, the collaboration possibilities match what you get in Google Docs, but with a far better editing interface.

Photos are another strength of OneDrive. With a $6.99-a-month Office subscription, you get a full terabyte of OneDrive storage, enough to store a couple hundred thousand digital photos. The web view of your photos is