Jones did not reveal a date when placeholders, or rather their replacement, will reach Windows 10, saying only that it would be by the end of 2015. Microsoft will release a revised iOS OneDrive app and a beta of OneDrive for Business for OS X "later this month," and will implement syncing of shared folders "by the summer," Jones added. will take time, but this is the best option to meet our core goals," Jones said. "We understand that having one sync engine. Currently, the two use different sync engines, and reliability across both have been an issue. Jones also reiterated what Microsoft has said previously, that one of the reasons placeholders were dropped from Windows 10 was because the company was working on a more reliable single synchronization engine for both OneDrive - the consumer-grade service - and OneDrive for Business, the cloud storage service offered to corporate subscribers of Office 365. Jones did not detail how placeholders would work, but he implied that, while the result may be the same, Windows 10 will handle them differently than Windows 8.1. That still-active thread currently has almost 600 posts. When that change was made two months ago, Windows 10 users lashed out, using a feedback thread to post hundreds of nearly-unanimously negative comments. To see everything stored in the cloud, users must instead open a browser and comb through OneDrive's online interface. Other files remain on OneDrive, but do not show up in File Explorer.
In Windows 10, OneDrive uses "selective sync," in that users choose which files are synched with actual downloads. When clicked, a placeholder kicks off a download to the device. In Windows 8.1, OneDrive does not automatically place actual copies of all cloud-stored files on a device's local storage, but instead shows placeholders for those still in the cloud.
"There are important capabilities that we need to bring to Windows 10 - some will make it into the first release - others will come in updates that follow later in the calendar year - most notably the core capabilities of placeholders that are both reliable and comprehensible, ", Jones wrote. Placeholders, which were removed from the Windows 10 preview in November, will not make it into the first release. In a blog post Thursday, Chris Jones, the top executive for OneDrive - Microsoft's cloud storage service - spelled out the 2015 release map.
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