Microsoft OneDrive update could make you a better employee overnight

Microsoft OneDrive will stop you missing a comment or edit ever again

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Microsoftis working on an update forcloud storageserviceOneDrivethat will help remote workers ensure that important tasks don’t slip through the cracks.

As explained in anew entryto theMicrosoft 365product roadmap, OneDrive for Business users will soon benefit from a dedicated feed that highlights recent activity associated with their files.

“When you navigate to the ‘My Files’ page in OneDrive for Business Web, you’ll see an Activity column that shows which of your shared documents have unseen edits and comments,” the roadmap states.

The new OneDrive feature is still currently under development, but should roll out to all professional users by the end of April 2022.

Microsoft OneDrive update

Since the transition toremote workingat the start of the pandemic, many employees have been increasingly reliant on a combination offile hostingandcollaborationservices to complete tasks as they usually would.

But with the increase in the amount of collaboration that’s happening across live documents andspreadsheets, it has become easier to miss important communications from colleagues, including comments and edits.

The new OneDrive feature, however, should give users a simple way to browse a chronological list of edits that have been made to their documents, minimizing the likelihood of something getting lost in the churn.

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The upcoming update will build upon a foundation already established by recent feature additions, all of which are designed to make OneDrive as well-rounded as possible in an increasingly competitive market.

For example, Microsoft recently announced measures to help users more easilycontrol who has accessto their files, anew pinning systemfor their most commonly used files and asimplified interfacethat makes locating files less difficult.

Althoughdata collected byTechRadar ProsuggestsGoogleDrive is currently the most popular cloud storage service by some margin, Microsoft will hope OneDrive improvements like these will help capture a larger portion of the business market.

Joel Khalili is the News and Features Editor at TechRadar Pro, covering cybersecurity, data privacy, cloud, AI, blockchain, internet infrastructure, 5G, data storage and computing. He’s responsible for curating our news content, as well as commissioning and producing features on the technologies that are transforming the way the world does business.

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