I'm a long-time Dropbox user, and I'd like to experiment with Sky Drive. I have two Windows 8 computers and one Ubuntu computer that I use on a regular basis. If I can't use Sky Drive on all of them, that is a deal-breaker for me.
As far as I can tell, there is no official Sky Drive app for linux (just Windows and OS X). Is there any unofficial method for using Sky Drive on linux?
You need to have Silverlight to see the SkyDrive UI, but that is for Windows only.
You can access the SkyDrive web interface by installing a Silverlight alternative called Moonlight. Moonlight is an open-source project which implements most of the features of Silverlight.
Download Moonlight from here and install as per the instructions on the same page. It is a Firefox plugin but may work on Chromium also (not tested though).
After installing Moonlight, you need to install User Agent Switcher extension in Firefox from here. Then click Firefox menu → Tools → Default User Agent → Internet Explorer → Internet Explorer 7. Now refresh the page to see the SkyDrive UI in your Ubuntu browser!
Note: Currently, there is no SkyDrive application/client for Linux.
As of September 1st, 2013, you can access SkyDrive directly from a modern web browser. I can confirm that I can access, download, upload, and delete files to / from my SkyDrive via Chrome version 29 running on the Debian Jessie distribution of GNU/Linux.
For more of an application-driven approach to accessing SkyDrive, there's the libzapojit library that might be either usable now in gnome-documents or soon-to-be-usable in gnome-documents (see https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-May/msg00303.html and draw your own conclusions). If you're not against using Chrome on GNU/Linux, there's also a Chrome App, though I haven't tested it on my own machine.
