SkyDrive app for iOS and Windows Phone released

By George Wong on 12/13/2011, filed in Home > CellPhones

Good news for SkyDrive users. If Microsoft’s cloud-storage service is your weapon of choice when it comes to keeping your documents online, you now have an additional way to access it while on the go. Today Microsoft announced the launch of its SkyDrive app for iOS and Windows Phone devices. Previously WP users already had SkyDrive integration with their apps on the phone, but they had no way of managing their accounts like they did on the desktop. The SkyDrive app changes that.

iOS users also had SkyDrive access but only through the HTML5 website – the SkyDrive app makes it more convenient and faster to access on their iPhones. The app is available now on the Windows Marketplace (Windows Phone 7.5 Mango required) and the Apple App Store (iOS 4.0 required). Check out the video demonstrations below:

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iOS: was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

Microsoft: Microsoft is the company behind software like Windows, Microsoft Office and hardware like the Xbox and Kinect. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. MS-DOS was the product that propelled Microsoft towards success, but it is Windows and Office that made it what it is today. Microsoft is currently engaged in a number of projects, including Windows 8, Windows Phone, Xbox, Office and the Azure cloud computing platform. the large majority of desktop computers run on Windows.

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