- Microsoft apparently has a brand new OneDrive app within the works
- The software program was leaked and comes with a slick fashionable design
- Nevertheless, it is proving divisive when it comes to what the purpose of the app may be – however possibly we’re not seeing the complete image but
Microsoft is seemingly engaged on a brand new OneDrive app for Home windows 11 with a clear and fashionable interface.
Home windows Central stories that it has seen this creation, which was leaked from Microsoft’s personal servers. It seems to be a devoted app for OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud storage service, however is a web-based piece of software program reasonably than one natively coded for Home windows 11. As ever, we advise warning round leaks, however it actually sounds intriguing.
Home windows Central assures us that, regardless of being an online app,. this contemporary tackle OneDrive is not a sluggish piece of software program (not like the brand new Outlook app, which can also be an online app, however suffers on the efficiency entrance).
The brand new OneDrive app begins by presenting you along with your picture library, though it has a swap to flick again to its file administration panel, the place you may view all the pieces (photographs, paperwork, all of your information within the cloud).
Within the picture panel you may simply entry your ‘Moments’ – footage from previous years taken on the present date – in addition to picture albums, and a gallery view.
Home windows Central observes that the gallery view is “new, and never presently obtainable on the conventional OneDrive web site”, however there’s a gallery view with the OneDrive website. I presume that our sister website means it is ‘new’ as in ‘tweaked’, and the principle distinction seems to be a brand new floating menu bar that seems when you choose a photograph – though that carries a lot the identical choices as the highest menu bar that is summoned on the present OneDrive website.
At any fee, the brand new gallery view does look slicker, as does the entire interface right here, which is it is all very good, shiny and fashionable wanting. (Once more, keep in mind that we should always take all this data with an applicable dose of seasoning).
Evaluation: what’s Microsoft driving at right here?
So, sure, it is a nice-looking tackle OneDrive in a neat app bundle for Home windows 11, and the truth that we’re advised it runs easily and in a performant approach sounds good. It is good to have the ‘Moments’ (historic images) performance simply accessible too. It is a part of the cellphone app, and I get notifications on my Home windows 10 PC for moments linking via to the OneDrive web site, however they’re surprisingly sporadic.
Total, although, there’s not a lot right here which is all that completely different to the OneDrive web site – not so far as this leak reveals, anyway. After all, the leaked software program right here could by some means be an older model of the app, or there may be extra to disclose – and additional data may very well be coming quickly.
Why do I say that? As a result of, funnily sufficient, Microsoft has its ‘Annual OneDrive Digital Occasion’ on October 8, in order that may be a becoming time for an unveiling. Apparently, the blurb for that occasion mentions “OneDrive’s newest developments in AI” fairly a bit, so maybe this app could have some AI infused in there, too – that might hardly be a shock.
This purported new OneDrive app is a little bit of a head-scratcher in some methods, although, given which you could already entry Microsoft’s cloud storage locker straight via Home windows 11’s folders (File Explorer) – or the Photographs app for that matter. OK, so these strategies aren’t as neat and tidy, however nonetheless, due to this, there are of us reacting to this leak with confusion. They’re questioning why Microsoft would even trouble with this new app – on condition that, as famous, it would not seem to do a lot completely different.
Possibly Microsoft will clarify all subsequent week, and we’ll simply have to attend for the official revelation and particulars of what the OneDrive app can actually do.
In the meantime, there are already groans from a variety of Home windows 11 customers on social media and the standard boards about how that is simply going to be one other undesirable default app within the OS that they need to strip out. That chatter is mixed with cries from the cynical that that is simply one other approach for Microsoft to attempt to push OneDrive (and subscriptions therein – one thing the corporate has been eager on doing prior to now, it have to be famous).
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