Microsoft release official SkyDrive app for Android devices

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Not strictly speaking a Windows Phone article, but Microsoft's launch of an Android client for SkyDrive is an important part of their ecosystem. It makes sense for Microsoft to ensure SkyDrive is available for iOS and Android as well as Windows Phone. And of course it helps to increase the visibility of the ecosystem that will be driving Microsoft's new Windows strategy into 2013 and beyond.

From the Google Play listing:

  • Access all of your SkyDrive content including files shared with you.
  • View recently used documents.
  • Choose multiple photos or videos to upload from your phone.
  • Share your files and photos – send a link in email or in another app.
  • Open your SkyDrive files in other Android apps.
  • Manage your files – delete, or create new folders.

This client launch follows the general updating of SkyDrive earlier in the month (which Rafe covered here on AAWP) as Microsoft prepare for Windows 8 to reach the mass market. Providing seamless transfer between all of the major smartphone platforms should ease the adoption of Windows Phone 8 in social groups, and of course there's nothing wrong with using a Windows desktop and an Android smartphone, which makes this release a pretty obvious step.

It's also about confidence. If people start to use Microsoft products in day to day use, when they come to look for a new smartphone there's less of a barrier to adopting a Windows Phone device.

You can download your copy of SkyDrive for Android from Google Play.

Source / Credit: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.skydrive