Now Microsoft is celebrating OneDrive’s 15th anniversary with a new home page, called OneDrive Home, which should make it easy to keep track of your work. Instead of getting to the My Files tab when you first open OneDrive, you’ll find yourself in the new start page that resembles the dashboard in the online version of Office.
OneDrive Home, a pleasant experience for those fifteen years with us
Like the Office web app, the OneDrive home page contains a list of our files, organized according to the access time to them. Above the list are filters that allow us to sort our documents by file type: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF.
There is also a new column “Exercise” to the right of the file field “Owner” that tells you when someone leaves a comment, @mentions another user, or assigns you a task within a shared document. On the left side of the home view, Microsoft has added a new quick access sectionwhere (just like in Windows) you can find and pin your most frequently accessed spaces.
Unfortunately, these changes are not available at this time: Microsoft says that OneDrive Home will be available in “the next few months”. However, from the looks of it, the new home page could serve as a central hub. This should help you stay organized while collaborating remotely.
In addition to the OneDrive web app, Microsoft is also rolling out its photo stories for the OneDrive mobile app (essentially the OneDrive equivalent of Instagram stories) to users in Australia. The feature won’t reach users in the US or other regions until later this year.