Microsoft today unveiled some of the upcoming updates to the OneDrive service in Windows 11, the web, and the rest of Microsoft 365 during an exclusive online event. The company introduced what it calls “the third generation of OneDrive,” as well as the addition of its new Copilot experience to OneDrive. Redmond also demonstrated several new design elements for the web-based service experience, such as colored folders. If you’re curious, some of these features are currently available to try if you sign in to OneDrive with a corporate account.
The new Onedrive experience at home
The redesigned OneDrive Home experience is almost certainly the highlight of the event. According to Microsoft, the new OneDrive Home experience is intended to help you find, access and work with all your files faster and more personally than ever. The new OneDrive Home is based on Microsoft’s new Fluent Design language, which debuted in Windows 11, and lets you put files and folders front and center. To improve readability, the company reduced the number of containers and updated the font.
Aside from the cosmetic makeover, Microsoft’s new OneDrive Home aims to make it easier to find and access files in OneDrive. AI-powered recommendations are available in a new “For You Section,” which will include new options to return to archives directly from your home page. You’ll also be able to filter the list using new PDF, PowerPoint, Excel, Word and other buttons.
Other changes to OneDrive Home include a new Add New option that lets you create files from templates across all Microsoft 365 apps. To help you stay organized, you’ll even be able to customize the colors of the folders you create. When you share a folder, the color you choose will reflect in the eyes of the people you share it with. Additionally, you can also read about Microsoft Copilot – your AI companion for work. [Release Date Updates]
Additionally, Microsoft redesigned the Shared view so you can access any file, regardless of how it was shared, with new filters and options to mark the file as a favorite regardless of the content type. With that preferred view, you can quickly return to your files from the sidebar, and you can even create a shortcut to a file so you can link it to any folder in OneDrive.
Rounding out the list of improvements in OneDrive Home is a new People view, which shows files from the people you’re working with, and a Meetings view, which shows files from your meetings.
Finally, OneDrive Home will soon include a media view, allowing users to access photo and video assets from a single location. Later this month, you’ll be able to access OneDrive directly from Teams and see the same new For You view. And in OneDrive for Business? Microsoft will embed the OneDrive app in the left navigation of the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook for the web, eliminating the need to exit the program.
Co-pilot and artificial intelligence functions in Onedrive
What else is notable about this event? In Copilot, it’s OneDrive. This experience is not yet available for testing, but Microsoft has some plans for it. You will be able to search for files shared by a specific person at a specific time using natural language in the search field. You can also avoid opening a document to determine if it is relevant to your search by asking Copilot to highlight key points.
Copilot will also recommend next steps, such as placing the item in a folder and people to share the file with, as well as giving you a daily feed of updates in OneDrive that you may have missed. Microsoft stated that these capabilities are “a little further away” and that Copilot on OneDrive would be available in December to all customers who have a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
Microsoft also mentioned some other AI-powered services, especially for customers. In the first, you will be able to recognize and add people to OneDrive, as well as manually add names to faces. In the second you can write what you are looking for in the search bar and OneDrive will find it for you using natural language. These two features are now available in preview.
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Other OneDrive features introduced at this event include the ability for people who use OneDrive in Teams and Sharepoint to open files from the OneDrive web in a desktop app of their choice. Microsoft also intends to launch offline mode, which will allow you to open and work with files in your browser offline. This is expected in 2024.
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