Consumer OneDrive

Consumer OneDrive is Microsoft’s public hosted storage and synchronization technology. Although designed for consumers, it is integrated with some Microsoft products sold to businesses, including Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and the Office desktop suite. Consumer OneDrive technology enables users to synchronize folders and their included files from one or more Windows or Mac computers with the Microsoft-hosted OneDrive storage service. As files are added or changed in the user’s OneDrive folder, they are automatically synchronized to the OneDrive service when Internet connectivity is available.

Consumer OneDrive has several technical advantages over OneDrive for Business. It has clients for more platforms, enables more selective synchronization, supports larger files (up to 10GB rather than 2GB), and offers better reliability and performance. Microsoft is working on a series of client applications, based on consumer OneDrive technology, that work with both consumer OneDrive and OneDrive for Business and close many of the technology gaps between the services.