- Android phone owners can now quickly display desktop files without hassle
- Previously, if you were sent to you an office folder, you had to connect to your Microsoft account even for a quick glance
- No connection is required now, as has been the case with iOS for some time
Microsoft has just brought the anonymous file sharing capacity that was already in Android users, so that these telephone owners could display a desktop file sent to them without having to connect to their Microsoft account.
Currently, if you receive a link to a Word file (or another Microsoft Office format such as Excel), when you access it on an Android smartphone, you will need to log into your Microsoft account before you can view it.
However, as Android Authority reports, Microsoft has now deleted this requirement, so you can simply click and display the desktop file on your phone. But if you want to do something else – like modifying a Word document you have received, or on a comment – you will always have to connect, because these changes must be assigned to you. (You will see a quick inform, by the way).
You will need an up -to -date version on your mobile so that it works, however, with Microsoft noting in the blog post presenting the change that version 16.0.18827.20066 or later is required.
As Android Authority observes, the possibility of clicking on a link and opening an office file in this way, without being signed, has been available on iPhone for a few months now.
Analysis: about time for Android
It took a while to provide this feature for Android, which is a bit strange, because you think it would be a priority for Microsoft (with this mobile operating system representing the majority of smartphones). However, it is good to see the beginnings of the functionality, even if Android users had to wait a while for this tip to be written.
Obviously, it is quite annoying to click on a link on a file that you have been sent, then to be invited to connect, if everything you want to do, perhaps, is a quick glance on the sent document.
I should note that the file sender must still be connected with its Microsoft account to share a file, of course, it is only the recipient that can display the file (and see it) anonymously, without any necessary connection.
