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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 simonh »

nathantotten wrote: post #55
simonh wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try that line on Bill Gates in his prime.

Things are different around here. Teams are expected to deliver great products on their own, not rely on some artificial lock-in to force adoption. You see this all over - we offer Linux on Azure, you can federate AD with Google Apps, we release dozens of apps for iOS and Android, and we are opening up many many APIs for rich integration. (Opinion my own obviously).

Fair points, and I have to say I'm pretty happy with the direction MS is going in these days. I have to say that an Office 365 subscription would be really nice to have, but is just too pricey. Dropbox integration is a nice feature, but is it enough? Maybe one of these days.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by matthewmacleod »

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…

What? That makes no sense.

Dropbox has moved from "no interoperability with Office" to "interoperability with Office". How can that be a bad thing?

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by ceejayoz »

OneDrive wrote: post #46
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.

Can we not do the Reddit novelty accounts thing?

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by justcommenting »

api wrote: post #56
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

All the major cloud vendors are surveillance collaborators. ... and I have to ask: do they have any choice? Can you say no to the national security state? If I were in charge of a company with employees who have families and fiscal responsibilities, I can't say that I could. I'm sure any request from those quarters comes with an implied "we wouldn't want anything bad to happen to your company, now would we?" The only…

this is a political problem, but can also be addressed as an engineering problem: https://leastauthority.com/ and https://www.tahoe-lafs.org/

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by bastawhiz »

fiatjaf wrote: post #54

"Dropbox is home to over 35 billion Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations." So they're reading the files in Dropbox and its contents to know they're Office documents?

It's unlikely that they're trawling your uploaded content. Dropbox does some amount of preprocessing (e.g., to allow document preview and photo thumbnails), which also collects information like MIME type. I would assume they simply ran an aggregate query against this sort of metadata, or collected these stats at the time of upload.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by fiatjaf »

noir_lord wrote: post #58
fiatjaf wrote: post #54

"Dropbox is home to over 35 billion Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations." So they're reading the files in Dropbox and its contents to know they're Office documents?

Did you think they were not? How do you think they generate thumbnails and such?.

Ah, they do that? That's cool!

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by lentil_soup »

I stopped using Dropbox after the whole Condoleezza Rice thing and have been using a mix of Google Drive and OneDrive and I must say I like them a lot better. They do the same (and more if you use other Google Apps) and prices are cheaper. Are there any benefits to using Dropbox?

Are there any other real alternatives you could recommend to give them a try?.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by stinos »

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…

a bit like MS in 90

don't you mean M$ there :P No offense meant, but you know, it's a bit difficult to take people serious when they use terms like that.

Re: Dropbox is in your Office

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Post by jmcdowell »

Very interesting, just wondering but do people think this benefits one company more than the other?

I originally thought Microsoft as its a great reason to keep Word relevant by teaming up with such a used storage platform and not succumbing to Google docs, but is that offset by dropbox being able to enter the enterprise world?

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