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Dropbox is in your Office

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Re: Dropbox is in your Office

#22

Whoa, hell just froze over. I wonder how the OneDrive team feels about this? This kind of a decision was made at the highest levels of the company.

It sounds more like Microsoft wanting to bring Dropbox in to its influence area. Possible acquisition, lobbying strategy or marketing stunt sounds right.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

#23
Oh, this is great news. Dropbox is a great product (no offense, OneDrive), and it'll make the entire Office Workflow a great deal cleaner and easier.

I'm also glad to see integration across cloud services. I think this will improve the consumer experience.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

#24
post #10

Whoa, hell just froze over. I wonder how the OneDrive team feels about this? This kind of a decision was made at the highest levels of the company.

Why would they feel bad? They probably want to have a successful product not because the user has no option but for its own merits.

Try that line on Bill Gates in his prime.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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post #22

Whoa, hell just froze over. I wonder how the OneDrive team feels about this? This kind of a decision was made at the highest levels of the company.

It sounds more like Microsoft wanting to bring Dropbox in to its influence area. Possible acquisition, lobbying strategy or marketing stunt sounds right.

No it sounds like Microsoft wants its users to use Office documents as opposed to Google Drive.

Box and Dropbox support office formats which makes sense why they'd partner with them to perpetuate this usage.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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post #13
post #6

To me this sounds very much like "Microsoft is buying Dropbox in the next 6 months"...

What would Microsoft want Dropbox for? They don't have any infrastructure Microsoft would want (MS runs Azure, while Dropbox just rents off AWS), Microsoft has OneDrive clients for most of the platforms Dropbox is on... it doesn't seem to me that Dropbox has anything Microsoft can't just add to their own service.

You could say the same about Google (Google+) and Facebook. Users!!!!

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

#28
post #9

This is very peculiar. From past Dropbox acquisitions, one can extrapolate they're almost certainly working on online collaboration tools. I wonder if Dropbox is using this as a way to gain footholds in large enterprise.

Of course. Partnering with OEM's like Dell and integration in Office gives you access to more users and revenue.
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