INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
If you live and work in the Microsoft Office ecosystem but often use a Mac, here is some good news: OneDrive Files On-Demand is now
available in public preview for MacOS.
Files-On Demand was one of the marquee features of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
The general idea here is you can store your files in the cloud and sync them between devices, but while they show up in your Windows
Explorer and — now — MacOS Finder, those files don''t actually have to be downloaded
Instead, as the name so smartly implies, Files On-Demand only downloads them as needed, freeing up precious local storage space.
Of course,
you can always opt to sync every file, too
You really don''t want to have to sync a 2 GB file over slow airplane Wi-Fi, after all.
Microsoft notes that it is committed to ''to the
Mac as a first-class endpoint& and that it continues to invest in the platform
And these days, the Mac and Windows versions draw from the same code base and Mac updates arrive at monthly.
While Files On-Demand is about
more than Office, chances are that many of the users will be Office users who use the built-in OneDrive features to store their documents in
