{"id":26802,"date":"2012-03-02T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T23:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/microsoft-doesnt-like-attachments-prefers-you-use-skydrive.html"},"modified":"2012-03-08T10:07:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:07:39","slug":"microsoft-doesnt-like-attachments-prefers-you-use-skydrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/microsoft-doesnt-like-attachments-prefers-you-use-skydrive.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft doesn&#39;t like attachments, prefers you use &quot;Skydrive&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Microsoft doesn&#39;t like attachments, prefers you use &quot;Skydrive&quot;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft, not surprisingly, stacks the deck a bit regarding How Awful Attachments Are. For instance, it&#39;s not clear to me that people who lose where they saved their attachment and delete the original email aren&#39;t going to lose where on Skydrive it is or delete the original email that told them.<\/p>\n<p>That said, using email for collaborative documents is, even if just two people are involved, a not-very-efficient method of working.  But it&#39;s fairly simple and straightforward: the sender can just keep the file on their own hard drive rather than a slower web drive; the sender doesn&#39;t have to worry about who has rights (and of what kind) to the file or directory; collaborators don&#39;t have to worry about explicit check-in\/out or two simultaneous workers overwriting a doc, etc.).  <\/p>\n<p>And that having been said, it&#39;s unclear why Skydrive is, for the arguments given, any more cool or useful than Dropbox or Google Docs, etc. <\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#39;s an interesting set of arguments for Microsoft to be making.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.neowin.net%2Fimages%2Fuploaded%2F5b4f6855-4008-4501-8dcc-536c9b91abe3_10jan1.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/microsoft-says-attachments-suck-in-new-infographic'>Microsoft says, &quot;Attachments Suck&quot; in new infographic<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMicrosoft has released a new and entertaining infographic that promotes its Skydrive cloud-based service for transfers of documents, stating flat out that &quot;Attachments Suck.&quot;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft doesn&#39;t like attachments, prefers you use &quot;Skydrive&quot; Microsoft, not surprisingly, stacks the deck a bit regarding How Awful Attachments Are. For instance, it&#39;s not clear to me that people who lose where they saved their attachment and delete the original email aren&#39;t going to lose where on Skydrive it is or delete the original &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/microsoft-doesnt-like-attachments-prefers-you-use-skydrive.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft doesn&#39;t like attachments, prefers you use &quot;Skydrive&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,20,47],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-hi-tech","category-my-computer","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17297,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/outlook-mixed.html","url_meta":{"origin":26802,"position":0},"title":"Outlook Mixed","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-May-10 3:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So I've been back on Outlook 2003 at work for close to two weeks now. \u00a0Net-net, I'm ... satisfied that making the change back from Gmail was the right decision, but by no means an unalloyed one. 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