Dropbox is in your Office • Hacker News Board

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

#41

Post by tkinom » Tue, Nov 04, 2014, 4:32 PM UTC

Not sure how is this good news for Dropbox?

MS is giving office 365 customer free unlimited cloud storage.

Now M$ can tell their office (probably soon to be office 365 ) customers: "Good News, we have dropbox support for you, but BTW checkout out our unlimited cloud storage for free too."

For me, it is a bit like MS in 90 said we have strong competitor call Netscape while pre install IE for free to kill Netscape. It is assimilation strategy from the old play book.

Dropbox has little choose on this as Box are doing it and their enterprise customers might also demand it. They have to the poison pill.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by halviti » Tue, Nov 04, 2014, 4:35 PM UTC

For me, the fact that Microsoft worked directly with the FBI to integrate OneDrive into PRISM makes the whole product something I would never touch, so it's great to see alternatives picking up the slack.

http://cryptome.org/2014/11/ms-onedrive-nsa-prism.htm

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

#43

Post by justcommenting » Tue, Nov 04, 2014, 4:37 PM UTC

halviti wrote: post #42

For me, the fact that Microsoft worked directly with the FBI to integrate OneDrive into PRISM makes the whole product something I would never touch, so it's great to see alternatives picking up the slack. http://cryptome.org/2014/11/ms-onedrive-nsa-prism.htm

I hope Microsoft and Dropbox both improve their security, but Dropbox has a history of lying to customers when it comes to the security of its products, e.g. http://www.wired.com/2011/05/dropbox-ftc/

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by jonlucc » Tue, Nov 04, 2014, 4:38 PM UTC

free2rhyme214 wrote: post #27

seshakiran wrote: post #15

Good move. Will we see Dropbox part of MS soon?

Drew didn't sell to Steve Jobs, why would he sell to Microsoft?

It's possible that it is becoming a more difficult space to compete in. There are now several companies (MS, Google) that can use it as a mechanism for lock-in or subsidize the costs in another way. If Dropbox wants to compete, their margins over AWS pricing will get very thin, and Google et al can still undercut them.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

#45

Post by hanley » Tue, Nov 04, 2014, 4:39 PM UTC

It's interesting that the images show the Office app being used on an iPad instead of a Surface.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by OneDrive » Tue, Nov 04, 2014, 4:39 PM UTC

johnloeber wrote: post #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.

None taken.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

#47

Post by mh8h » Tue, Nov 04, 2014, 4:40 PM UTC

tkinom wrote: post #41

Not sure how is this good news for Dropbox? MS is giving office 365 customer free unlimited cloud storage. Now M$ can tell their office (probably soon to be office 365 ) customers: "Good News, we have dropbox support for you, but BTW checkout out our unlimited cloud storage for free too." For me, it is a bit like MS in 90 said we have strong competitor call Netscape while pre install IE for free to kill Netscape. It…

It's good for Dropbox, because they can push further into the enterprise market. When business users try to decide between Dropbox and OneDrive, Office integration won't be an issue for Dropbox any more.

Dropbox has its own merits over OneDrive. OneDrive is not as friendly and feature-complete as Dropbox is. And Dropbox has far better APIs when it comes to integrating with other services.

And as far as Microsoft is concerned, the partnership improves people's productivity.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

#48

Post by Multics » Tue, Nov 04, 2014, 4:41 PM UTC

vlunkr wrote: post #40

gummywormsyum wrote: post #34

Does this mean Condoleezza Rice will be able to see everything that I'm editing in Office??

Condoleezza Rice doesn't care what you are editing in office.

It should 'Office' -- 'office'.title() -- as it's a proper noun.

Rice probably doesn't care about software in any way. She's a name which helps DB sell product. She's a net positive for their brand.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

#49

Post by tiffanyh » Tue, Nov 04, 2014, 4:42 PM UTC

pibefision wrote: post #38

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).

There's lots of good Microsoft acquisitions since FoxPro. Like:

- Visio

- Bungie Software (Halo)

- Groove

etc...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

#50

Post by dheera » Tue, Nov 04, 2014, 4:43 PM UTC

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.

Ugh, I hope it doesn't get acquired by Microsoft, of all companies. I use Dropbox specifically because it doesn't try to be too much, which makes it extremely flexible. In fact I use it for a million things other than file sharing.