Differential sync will speed up OneDrive from Q2 2017

It has been some time since Microsoft mentioned that differential sync would be coming to OneDrive, and the company's latest roadmap shows that it is due to arrive some time in the second quarter of this year.

The feature will help to save time and bandwidth by only synchronizing parts of a file that have been updated. It's something that users of Microsoft's cloud storage service have been requesting for a long time now, and years of asking will soon come to an end.

As reported by ZDNet, an updated roadmap for OneDrive shows that the second quarter of 2017 is due to see the arrival of not only differential sync, but also RMS sync and a "Share from Explorer" option. While not everyone will be excited about the reduction in bandwidth usage (although it's something that will certainly be of interest to people with a limited monthly allowance), faster syncing times are something that all users will support.

While the roadmap does not give precise rollout times for the feature -- this is Microsoft we're talking about, after all -- we can now pin down the arrival of differential sync to between March and May this year.