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Dropbox is in your Office

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Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by jbigelow76 »

gum_ina_package wrote: post #2

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.

Office is THE cash cow, OneDrive is (probably) a loss leader. Anything that can be done to ensure Office's continued near ubiquity, reduce usage friction, and shore up beach heads against competitors looking for an area to drive a wedge in will be done.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by pistle »

cwyers wrote: post #13
stangeek wrote: 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.

They could feasibly even create slopes that could pull dropbox into renting in Azure to achieve specific value-adds with MS integration. Overall, it looks like a plus for consumers with not a specific downside being described by anyone (yet?).

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by izolate »

funkyy wrote: post #22
gum_ina_package wrote: post #2

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.

Kind of like what Microsoft did to Facebook.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by bluedino »

cwyers wrote: post #13
stangeek wrote: 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.

They could make them switch to Azure like they made Hotmail switch from BSD to NT

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by pibefision »

bhartzer wrote: post #30

So, how long until Microsoft buys Dropbox? Seems kind of strange that they would not be integrating OneDrive into Office rather than Dropbox.

My hope is that will never happend. It's just hope. Since FoxPro many years ago, there is not a single acquisition by Microsoft that turned in a great product or an improvement to the end user (please, include in this scope Groove Networks, whichi was great at that time).

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by andyjohnson0 »

Kudos to Microsoft for being open to partnering with Dropbox, as this new functionality appears to overlap with OneDrive. I hope this is another example of MS being more open and flexible after the recent leadership change.
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