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It will create some competition for OneDrive. But Office 365 subscribers now get unlimited OneDrive space as part of the subscription.
My bet is Dropbox integration might get some Dropbox users to buy Office 365. When they realize they get unlimited OneDrive space they might switch to OneDrive.
Seems like a good move to be honest.
The whole thing about Dropbox is that just works. Files are files, folders are folders, if I move them about they move, etc. The only problem with Dropbox and Office is how Office locks the files so they're only synced after I close the Office program, not after every Ctrl+S. Fix that, and it's integrated.
The whole "save in the cloud" nonsense that desktop Office programs have these days feels like a mistake. I can understand how with iOS's "no files" design, this is the only way forward, but on desktop? Please let it stop.
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?.
Microsoft integrating with competitor's products, this sounds news to me. A really good move, for both companies.
For example, Box is also working with Microsoft: http://content.box.com/box-for-office-365 -- I would expect integrations with other platforms in the future as well. If the consumer experience is driven around Office apps rather than around the Dropbox app, then at one point the cloud storage solutions truly become interchangeable.
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Indeed. Embrace. Integrate Office with it. Extend. Buy DropBox. Extinguish. Merge DropBox with OneDrive. Wow didn't expect this comment to bring on the downvotes.
That isn't the original meaning of the term "Embrace. Extend. Extinguish." which harks back to the Microsoft monopoly trial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish > The strategy's three phases are:[11] > Embrace: Development of software substantially compatible with a competing product, or implementing a public standard. > Extend: Addition and promotion of features not supported by the competin…
Not a day too early for the Windows Phone official app and another tick off the list of missing apps for Microsoft's mobile platform.
As an Office customer and a Dropbox customer, I can't help but have mixed feelings. Office already has "direct" OneDrive integration and it's pretty useless, how could it be any better on Dropbox? The whole thing about Dropbox is that just works . Files are files, folders are folders, if I move them about they move, etc. The only problem with Dropbox and Office is how Office locks the files so they're only synced aft…
Apparently mobile is the future and the desktop experience must be crippled to unify it with the mobile experience.
Personally, I don't understand how anyone gets real work done on tablets and phones. Sure there are some pretty silos, but trying to move data between silos is usually a nightmare.
Why would anyone send anything important into a 3rd party cloud storage? Even if you encrypt your files before sending? Really why?
Most of people don't have time/knowledge to setup any shared file storage.
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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/