Originally posted on TechCrunch:
When Dropbox introduced Carousel, it made a bid to be the home for all your photos. Microsoft wants to make a similar pitch. Today, the company outlined new ways to import, manage and share your photos on OneDrive, its cloud storage platform. Again, it is far from the first company to do so, so we can view its efforts from a historical perspective.
On the import side, you can now save files directly from the company's Outlook.com cloud mail service, and Windows users on either editions 7 and 8 (but not 9, natch) will now be able to back up photos that are received from non OneDrive devices, along with screenshots, which can now be automatically backed up.
Also out in the day's updates is the ability to create albums - groups of your photos that are shareable, unsurprisingly - and the ability to better manage photos that you have tagged...
