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Dropbox and Box have each had one for years, and even Apples iCloud Drive has become a reasonable service for one-person clouds in a couple years.

However, Microsofts OneDrive for Office 365 (ne OneDrive for Business) never seems to come out of the oven, though its been cooking for years.

This week, Microsoft began releasing its next generation (ha) OneDrive client app for OS X and Windows with support for Office 365 business cloud storage.

It can now do the very basics that the personal OneDrive app has done for some time -- but no more.

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OneDrive for Business still cant meet the promises Microsoft has made for Office 365s corporate collaboration.

OneDrive is a key block for cross-platform companies using Office 365 beyond the Office 2016 apps.

First, the good news: If you have Windows 8, 9, or 10, or OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later, you can run the native OneDrive app to create a virtual drive on your computer for accessing files directly from your apps.

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But if you use Windows 8.1 -- the first workable version of Windows 8 for enterprise -- you cant access the OneDrive for Office 365 functionality; Microsoft wont have Windows 8.1 compatibility until spring 2016, it says.

Onedrive For Business Version Mac Hasnt Worked

Wowza. Gone in both Windows and OS X is the OneDrive for Business app, which on the Mac hasnt worked since late spring.

Now, the OneDrive app that used to support only personal accounts will support your Office 365 business accounts, too -- as it already does on iOS and Android.

OneDrive: A tricky setup for immediate adopters The new Windows OneDrive client is available for download, while the Mac version is pending review in the Mac App Store (both are free).

But if you dont want to wait, Mac users can convert the existing, personal-only OneDrive app to support business storage, if theyre willing to do a minor amount of Terminal use.

Windows users must also convert either the new or existing personal OneDrive apps using some registry trickery -- installing the revised OneDrive app is not sufficient, bizarrely.

Update 4616: Microsoft has finally released the OneDrive Mac client in the Mac App Store that allows access to both corporate and personal OneDrive accounts without the Terminal trickery previously mentioned.

OneDrive is barely functional on Mac, a bit moreso in Windows Once that next generation OneDrive is going, youll get the basic OneDrive functionality, such as the ability to drag files in and out as if you were working with an external drive.

Believe it or not, on the Mac this is a new capability for OneDrives business users.

Before, you had to go to the Office 365 website or, for Office documents only, use the Office 2016 productivity apps to open and save them.

But the rest of the Office 2016 apps dont see that local OneDrive virtual drive as an alias to the central cloud repository.

That means you cant collaborate on documents opened from that local virtual drive, share it from within an Office 2016 app, or access email attachments stored there from your other devices.

Mac users cant share at all from the OneDrive virtual drive in the Finder.

As a result, users must be trained to never open Office files from the OneDrive virtual drive, but to do so instead from within the Office 2016 apps.

Those work well, using the same methods Ive described for Office for iPad.) The OneDrive virtual drive should be used only to copy files to a common location for use by all your devices -- and to access non-Office files, such as PDF files or images edited in non-Microsoft apps.

Promises, promises: Corrected functionality delayed until spring 2016 Microsoft readily admits in its release notes that the collaboration features dont work correctly in either Windows or OS X.

That correct operation is now promised for spring 2016, a big delay from the original December 2015 promise.

Windows 8.1 compatibility is likewise delayed, punishing companies that took the chance and moved up from Windows 7.

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