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Microsoft SkyDrive to become OneDrive

technologyEdward Kiledjian
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British Sky Broadcasting Group won a court battle with Microsoft last year and the settlement included an undisclosed amount of compensation and Microsoft agreed to change the name of its infringing SkyDrive product.

Now Microsoft has announced that Skydrive will be rebranded to OneDrive (link). They are promising that OneDrive is everything Skydrive is and more. What the more means is anyone's guess and Skydrive hasn't been the most popular consumer online cloud storage service. 

No date of when the new service will go live but you can give them your email address and they will let you know.

Windows 8.1 upgrade issue

technologyEdward Kiledjian

So I decided to upgrade my main PC to Windows 8.1 yesterday and the upgrade is painfully slow. But once it was installed (on a non touch based traditional PC), I was greeted with these: 

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Then when I started the desktop, I was greeted with: 

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Problem is I do not have a touch device and getting rid of these message with my mouse was challenging.  

Come on Microsoft, why don't you make this easier?  You know I''m on a non touch PC. You know I'm upgrading from Windows 8 (so I know the gestures). Someone at Redmond needs to own the customer user experience.