Windows Live SkyDrive – what’s to come in the next update

re: Windows Live SkyDrive – what’s to come in the next update

DN2004 — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:14:27 GMT

any idea if we are getting personalised urls like we do in spaces

re: Windows Live SkyDrive – what’s to come in the next update

damaster — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:03:10 GMT

@apollo: Yes Photos will keep the tags (including photo tags) you've added in and uploaded from Photo Gallery.

@edkopp4: You can upload via Windows Live Photo Gallery too. And yes the photos gadget will still be available to you Space - I assume all your original uploaded photos on your existing Space will be migrated to SkyDrive/Photos.

And yes, although there are no limit on the numbers of photos you can upload each month, photo storage will be capped at SkyDrive's 25GB, but is this is expected to increase over time. And I agree with you it should have been the old way with unlimited storage.

In the mean time I guess we can always rescale all those 12megapixel photos down to a reasonable size for web viewing. But really, I have around 6000 photos in original resolution and it is still no way near 25GB, and I wouldn't be sharing all of them anyways.

re: Windows Live SkyDrive – what’s to come in the next update

edkopp4 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:17:41 GMT

I can certainly understand why they're moving Photos to Skydrive, but I do have some reservations about this.

First, how will they handle uploads? Will one have to do it through SkyDrive, or can you still do it through the Spaces interface.

Second, will I still be able to have the Photos gadget on my Space? It looks pretty good there and gives visitors an easy way to quickly look at my photos.

Finally, and most importantly, will the restrictions on the number of photos we can upload be changed? As it stands, each Spaces user can upload 500 photos a month. I would prefer an unlimited number, but 500/month isn't a bad limit at all. Now that the Photos service is being moved to SkyDrive, will we be capped with a storage limit instead? I upload a lot of photos, which could add up to many gigabytes rather quickly, and I don't want to have to ever delete them. If these are counted towards my SkyDrive 25 GB limit, I could see this being a real problem. Although the current 500 photos is a limit, at least I can rest assured that I will always have more space is I just wait until the next month. So, my advice is to go with unlimited photo uploads, but if you can't do that, then keep the current system.

re: Windows Live SkyDrive – what’s to come in the next update

Jeremy Bost — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:29:34 GMT

I don't have this. When will everyone get it?

re: Windows Live SkyDrive – what’s to come in the next update

apollo — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:53:31 GMT

Will SkyDrive/Photos keep the normal tags an the people tags I added with Photo Gallery?

A feature that i would like to have at SkyDrive is a integration into Windows Exploer, but I think this will only appear if Skydrive once is integrated with Live Mesh. (I hope this will happen)

re: Windows Live SkyDrive – what’s to come in the next update

cJr — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:43:44 GMT

Can we finally upload whole folders?

Or do we have to do it by file still? :/