Microsoft brings the Skydrive cloud app to Android

After updating Nokia Belle phones with Microsoft's cloud service, SkyDrive, the company is now eyeing other smartphones and it has released an app for SkyDrive on Android, considering the gigantic share of Google's mobile OS. Android users can store multimedia files on the cloud-based SkyDrive app and access them from virtually any device, while also sharing them on the go.

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The SkyDrive application for Windows desktop and OS X recently got updated and will now feature a new, modern design for desktop and tablet browsers, along with instant search, a contextual toolbar, thumbnail multiselect, drag-and-drop organisation and content sorting.

A Microsoft blog post made the following announcement, “As many of you know, Windows Phone users can have all the photos they take on their phones automatically sent to the SkyDrive camera roll folder. I have 1,411 photos in this folder, and it used to be a pain to get to the most recent photo. We now default to sorting by newest to oldest, which should make viewing your camera roll much better.”