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Microsoft’s new OneDrive cloud storage app for Android, released this morning, reflects one of CEO Satya Nadella’s goals for the company — bridging work and personal lives in “dual use” experiences.

Satya Nadella
Satya Nadella

It’s the first single app to integrate both OneDrive for Business and the standard OneDrive experience for consumers, allowing users to access work and business files by toggling between the two types of files. Features include the ability to set an application-specific PIN code to improve the security of the app.

“Your personal and work accounts are kept separate, and OneDrive makes it clear when you’re accessing your work or personal files,” writes Jason Moore, a OneDrive group program manager, in a post announcing the new app. “So you don’t need to worry about accidentally backing up your photos to your work account.”

It’s a new attempt by the Redmond company to stand out in the increasingly competitive market for online storage and file sharing, against Box, Dropbox, Google and other rivals.

Similar experiences are in the works for the OneDrive apps for iOS and Windows Phone (which received smaller updates this morning).

So why Android first? Microsoft didn’t previously have a OneDrive for Business app for Android, so the company says the Google platform was the natural choice to debut the new, integrated experience. The move also reflects Microsoft’s newfound willingness to be more platform-agnostic under its new CEO.

Nadella wrote in his companywide email to employees last month, “Across Microsoft, we will obsess over reinventing productivity and platforms. We will relentlessly focus on and build great digital work and life experiences with specific focus on dual use.”

The app is available for download from the Google Play Store.

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