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>> Today I'm thrilled to
announce OneDrive Files On-Demand,
this is a complete solution for
getting all your files into
the cloud and then making them
available on all your devices.
>> We all have precious and important memories,
whether it is pictures from family and friends or that
one important file that you so much want to use.
Now imagine a word that you wanted to have access
to all your OneDrive files from your device,
in file explorer or your applications
having access to them just like any normal file.
Well, say hello to Files On-Demand on Windows 10.
>> The Files On-Demand feature was
a great collaboration between
many teams here on Microsoft,
which includes OneDrive and Windows.
One of the goals that we set
for ourselves at the beginning of
our journey was to empower
our users through cloud and online services,
and also doing it in a very intuitive,
secure, and those reliable manner.
And I'm also a user of OneDrive.
I put thousands of family pictures
on there and millions of selfies,
and I found the sharing has never been easier.
Who wants to do the old thing of downloading,
and opening your email,
and attach, and send,
and wait five minutes and have your mom
and dad call you and say, did you send it yet?
Right, very frustrating, but no more.
>> Now let me explain to you how
OneDrive Files On-Demand work.
Files On-Demand allows you to store your contents
as placeholder files that occupy no disk space at all.
Upon your demand, OneDrive downloads
the content that you need and makes it available for you.
>> And as and when you on
your application needs a file to be available locally,
that's when we download the file locally
to your device, more like On-Demand.
>> In Windows 8.1, a similar feature
was introduced to Files On-Demand.
It was popular at that time but it
was later decided to be discontinued.
We received a lot of customer feedback that they
really liked this feature and asked for it to come back.
So, we decided to bring it back with
a new and improved architecture and thus we
have Files On-Demand in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
>> Our priority is to delight
our users and also always improve our products.
We are always polishing,
we're always listening, and we're
always making the user experience much better.
>> From my UI point of view, we wanted
to tackle two user concerns.
One, is the extension of
cloud indicators beyond sync status to
include those details how our users are
used to seeing on their cloud provider websites.
Our second consideration was to reduce visual noise.
We heard our users express
their frustration around icon files.
We evaluated our system, iterated and tested,
iterated again and again until we had
distilled the experience down to its essentials.
>> Application compatibility was
a primary goal of this feature,
and we accomplished this by
making it transparent to the end user,
whether the contents of a file was local or in the cloud.
>> For certain user actions,
for example, when you "Double-Click" to open a document.
When Windows identifies that it is an online only file,
it can then pass on the info to
OneDrive to fulfill the request.
OneDrive will then add that point,
take care of downloading the contents of
the file and making it available for you locally.
You can also do the opposite by choosing
to free up the disk space that the file takes.
When you do that, OneDrive
will detect this action and will
upload the contents of the file to
the cloud and leave a placeholder file on disk for you.
Based on the properties of the file,
Windows determines which icon to display for it.
These different icons allow you to easily identify
visually which of your contents are available online,
which of them are available locally,
and which of them are available offline.
>> We are seeing a growing number of
our consumers start to embrace the cloud,
and they are starting to store this content
in cloud locations such as OneDrive.
The great thing about it is
that you will have full access to
it without having to ever fill up your entire storage.
You can browse, you can search.
We hope you enjoyed learning about
the story about us and about
the experiences that we have
brought with Files On-Demand on Windows 10.
>> We are continuing to listen to our customers,
so that we can improve
the feature and make the end user experience better.
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