Once again Microsoft has taken a successful functioning product and screwed it up. They took their online workspace and made it into a product that is burdensome and, in my opinion, not worth the effort to use. Why do they keep changing their applications from functioning workable applications into applications that either aren't user friendly or compatible with other products?
Office Live worked with Windows Live perfectly, but when you choose to upgrade to SkyDrive it automatically uninstalls Office Live Workspace. I really should use the term FORCED to upgrade because if you don't upgrade you run the risk of losing or not being able to access your online stored documents.
Microsoft arbitrarily removes functionality within their applications and then makes it extremely difficult to figure out what is going on because all or most of the information listed on their "Support" pages either recommends solutions to problems that do not work or point out the fact that the functionality is some of their applications are no longer supported or exist. When searching for guidance on Office 2007 and SkyDrive; Microsoft's "Support" (online help) makes it exceedingly difficult to figure out how to make the application work and if the update really relates to your product. I found a page that is still recommending a solution that involves installing Live Update 1.5, quickly uninstalls itself the first time you try to use it. Office Live is simply not compatible with SkyDrive, at least not in the way it use to be.
It would appear that the only way to share documents from Office 2007 to SkyDrive is by dragging and dropping your documents from their local folder to the SkyDrive folder. I will never understand why they removed the ability to share and save documents online right from the file menu tab.
It does raise one question in my mind: Is there an office update, that if paid for will work just fine with SkyDrive? I guess we will have to wait and see. I really hope not because if there is, it will explain what Microsoft is all about or what they think of their longtime customers.
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