SkyDrive API updated, apps can now directly integrate with the cloud

Microsoft has just added some improvements to its SkyDrive service, making it play nice with 3rd party apps. SkyDrive, which is one of the key selling points of Windows Phone platform, now grants non-Microsoft apps full access to SkyDrive, allowing them to upload and share all kinds of files.

This should allow the development of much richer WP apps that do not take a lot of space. And since the Microsoft platform refuses to allow user replacement of the microSD cards, storage is quite valuable there.