{"id":59270,"date":"2014-01-27T18:46:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T16:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=59270"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:55:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:55:24","slug":"microsoft-skydrive-renamed-onedrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsoft-skydrive-renamed-onedrive\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft SkyDrive renamed OneDrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After losing a trademark case with BSkyB in the UK, Microsoft is renaming cloud storage system <a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/b\/skydrive\">SkyDrive<\/a> to <strong>OneDrive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While the name is changing, and Microsoft is relaunching the service with a promotional video you can see below, the features and functions of SkyDrive won&#8217;t change. Your SkyDrive will continue to work in the same way, just with a different name. This isn&#8217;t the only time Microsoft has been forced into changing a name &#8211; its radical new interface was dubbed &#8216;Metro&#8217; until a German firm came after the Redmond-based company with a lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div>\nDefault player\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\nBy use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C \nfound at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/. \n--><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nThis script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon\nas the line is read by the browser. 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We don&#8217;t know quite when SkyDrive will be rebranded as OneDrive, but users have nothing to fear from the change this time.<\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/are-you-addicted-to-google\">Are you addicted to Google?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/windows-8-1-uses-skydrive-to-search-text-in-photos\">Windows 8.1 uses SkyDrive to search text in photos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/box-now-offers-10gb-free-5month-for-100gb\">Box now offers 10GB free, $5\/month for 100GB<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After losing a trademark case with BSkyB in the UK, Microsoft is renaming cloud storage system SkyDrive to OneDrive. While the name is changing, and Microsoft is relaunching the service with a promotional video you can see below, the features and functions of SkyDrive won&#8217;t change. Your SkyDrive will continue to work in the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsoft-skydrive-renamed-onedrive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft SkyDrive renamed OneDrive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-59270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331471,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59270\/revisions\/331471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59270"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=59270"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=59270"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=59270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}