OneDrive Groups (formerly Windows Live Groups) was an online service by Microsoft as part of its Windows Live range of services that enables users to create their social groups for sharing, discussion, and coordination.
Features
The service allowed users to form their own community groups, similar to the way Facebook Groups function, allowing members of the group to participate in group discussions. In addition, Windows Live Groups integrated with the following Windows Live services to provide collaboration and sharing features:
- Windows Live Calendar provides a group calendar function which allows all members of the Group to add or keep track of calendar events for their Group
- Windows Live Messenger allows users to create Groups (not to be confused with "categories" in Messenger) in their contact list and start conversations with these Groups
- Windows Live SkyDrive (now known as OneDrive) provides members of the Group with 15 gigabytes of storage to upload and share their files and documents for others in the Group to download
- Windows Live Photos allows members of the Group to upload and share their photos
- Windows Live Hotmail allows users to send mass group e-mail messages to all members of a particular Group they are part of
- Office Online provides users with access to the Office Web Apps, and it uses the group's OneDrive storage
- Windows Live Family Safety blocks the use of Windows Live Groups for child-managed accounts
The owner of the group could choose a group theme, message, and a picture, as well as perform administrative functions such as managing who joins the group and deleting the group.
History
Windows Live Groups was released on December 2, 2008. MSN Groups, a similar offering from Microsoft, has been discontinued on/after February 21, 2009. However, content from MSN Groups could not be migrated over to Windows Live Groups, due to the different focus between the two products. The Windows Live Groups service is optimized for small groups like clubs or families, whereas MSN Groups caters to a wide variety of group sizes and types, including large public groups.[1] Windows Live Groups was updated to the "Wave 4" release on June 7, 2010.
Windows Live Groups was transitioned to become part of SkyDrive, renamed OneDrive in February 2014. The groups.live.com address redirected to a SkyDrive (now OneDrive) URL.
In May 2014, Microsoft removed the ability to create any new OneDrive groups.
Microsoft announced in August 2015 that OneDrive Groups would be closed on October 16, 2015.
See also
References
External links
- Windows Live Groups
- Windows Live Groups at the Wayback Machine (2009-12-23)
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