Microsoft’s marking OneDrive’s 15th anniversary with a brand new touchdown web page, known as OneDrive Home, and it ought to make it simpler to maintain tabs in your work. Instead of arriving on the My recordsdata tab whenever you first open OneDrive, you’ll end up on the brand new Home web page that resembles that dashboard within the on-line model of Office.

Like the Office net app, OneDrive Home accommodates an inventory of your recordsdata, organized by how not too long ago you accessed them. Above the listing are filters that allow you to type your paperwork by Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF file sorts.

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There’s additionally a brand new “Activity” column to the best of the “Owner” file area that tells you when somebody leaves a remark, @mentions one other consumer, or assigns you a process inside a shared doc. On the left aspect of the Home view, Microsoft’s including a brand new Quick entry part, the place (identical to on Windows) you’ll find and pin your most frequently-accessed areas.

Unfortunately, these modifications aren’t dwell proper now — Microsoft says OneDrive Home will probably be out there in “the coming months.” From what it seems to be like, although, the brand new Home web page may function a central hub that ought to show you how to keep organized whereas collaborating remotely.

Aside from its OneDrive net app, Microsoft can also be rolling out its photo story feature for the OneDrive cellular app (primarily the OneDrive-equivalent to Instagram tales) to customers in Australia. The characteristic’s not reaching customers within the US or different areas till later this yr.