Following a leaked roadmap of Microsoft's upcoming Office 15 productivity suite last week, a new video has been posted hinting at SkyDrive and Office 365 integration as well.

Shared by Rafael Rivera of Within Windows earlier today, the video depicts a typical morning commute by car or train, where files stored in Microsoft cloud can be accessed "wherever you go ... so it's easy to pick up where you left off." Though this functionality currently exists in Office 2010, it's likely Microsoft is looking to put its cloud services front and center with the latest release. For tablet deployments of Windows 8, this could be the company's answer to Apple's iCloud/iWork document sync.

Office 15 is rumored for release in 2013, with a public beta coming this summer.



source: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2 ... ration.ars

Doesn't Office 2010 already use SkyDrive?

It does, but you have to manually set up the integration. It's not exactly intuitive. I assume that they've made it an automatic thing in Office 15, which is kind of a big security hole.

I'll make a couple assumptions here: I think that it would only be on by default if you were using a Windows Live account under Windows 8; you've already got Skydrive integration there. Otherwise, it would probably ask you "Do you want to use Skydrive storage?" or something similar if you were using a local account or Windows 7.

Seems likely. If that IS the case, though, I'm gonna turn off SkyDrive even though I'll be logging in with a Windows Live account. I don't use the service and I don't like the idea of my documents sitting on a server somewhere that I can't control access to them.

What?

What do you mean, what? I'm saying I don't want my computer automatically copying my documents to some server at some Microsoft facility somewhere, leaving me unable to control who reads or uses them.