OneDrive Groups, formerly Windows Live Groups, was an online service by
Microsoft
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as part of its
Windows Live
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range of services that enabled users to create their social groups for sharing, discussion and coordination.
Features
The service allowed users to form their own community groups, like the way
Facebook Groups
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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:
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Calendar provides a group calendar function which allows all members of the Group to add or keep track of calendar events for their Group
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OneDrive
Microsoft OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) is a file hosting service operated by Microsoft. First launched in August 2007, it enables registered users to share and synchronize their files. OneDrive also works as the storage backend of the web ver ...
provides members of the Group 15
GB of storage to upload and share their files and documents for others in the Group to download
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Photos
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allow members of the Group to upload and share their photos with each other
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Outlook.com provides users to send mass group e-mail messages to all members of a particular Group they are part of.
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Office Online
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