It works as you’d expect, though some Apple ecosystem-specific functionality, like text message sync and Apple app integration is notably but understandably absent. This functionality is obviously built-in to Apple’s own platforms, but it provides a separate and less well understood iCloud client for Windows 7, 8.x, and 10. iCloud is the go-to for hundreds of millions of iPhone, iPad, and Mac users, and it provides document and photo storage, deep Apple app integration, messages sync, backup and restore, and more. It’s not particularly affordable compared to other services-users get 5 GB of storage for free, but 50 GB is $1 per month, 200 GB is $3 per month, and 2 TB is $10 per month, and there are no annual plans-but it’s hard to argue with the scope and functionality it provides. And that is a big deal.įor those unfamiliar, iCloud is Apple’s cloud storage service. But for now, both OneDrive and iCloud, as weird as that sounds, offer first-class, reliable cloud/desktop sync capabilities in Windows 10. And I’m curious now whether other cloud-based storage vendors-Dropbox, Box, and so on-will adopt this technology in Windows 10 as well.

Big deal, right? Well, there is one surprise: This version of the app differs from the normal web-based download in that it supports the same underlying sync technology as OneDrive’s Files On-Demand. Yesterday, Microsoft announced the release of iCloud for Windows 10 in the Microsoft Store.

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