Thursday, September 20, 2012

iCloud for Windows 2.0: An improvement, but not much has changed

iCloud for Windows 2.0: An improvement, but not much has changed:
iCloud gets a lot of attention in reviews of iOS and OS X, and with good reason—it's one of Apple's biggest services, and with every new version of its desktop and mobile operating systems, iCloud expands to store just a bit more of your stuff.
The service works best if you're syncing data between iOS and OS X devices, but since iCloud's introduction in iOS 5 last year, Apple has also offered a Windows client for the service, and the company has issued an updated version to go with iOS 6. The original iCloud for Windows was a pretty basic client that offered just a portion of the OS X version's functionality, and that doesn't change in version 2.0, though it is streamlined and expanded a bit in ways that should appeal particularly to iOS users with Windows PCs on their desks.


iCloud for Windows: A primer


Windows users can't do anything with iCloud unless they own something with an Apple logo on it—either an iOS device that runs iOS 5 or higher or a Mac running Lion or Mountain Lion. Even then, the Windows version of iCloud can only access a subset of your iCloud data compared to your Apple devices—the original version could access your mail, contacts, calendars and tasks lists, your bookmarks, and your Photo Stream. You can also view and delete (but not open) documents stored by iCloud-aware applications like Pages and TextEdit, as well as your iOS device backups.
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