Wait. This does not make sense given that MS already provides OneDrive.
Dropbox is in your Office
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Re: Dropbox is in your Office
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Well, that's really a new Microsoft. Just a short while ago, anything that could be done to make their products more integrated, and increase lock-in would be done. It didn't really matter if the benefited product made money or not. (For a very visible blow, look at the Windows Phone and Windows 8.) It's great to see that changing.
Office has always been the exception to that rule. Look at the long, long, long history of Office on Mac.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
The show-stoppers are "... promoting and improving our Services, and to develop new ones". Suppose I use Google Drive to store my current project, a big-ass novel that's going to see simultaneous publication by major publishers in a number of markets around the world. Google could in principle give it away for free to new sign-ups for their service as a promotional goodie. Or "develop new ones" ... well, we already h…
> Google could in principle give it away for free to new sign-ups for their service as a promotional goodie. No they couldn't, because other parts of their ToS explicitly let you retain control over your copyright. You'd sue them, and win. Also, they'd lose all their customers and probably shut down the Google Drive program entirely. Maybe we should just try and find a lawyer to interpret this impartially (something…
> No they couldn't
Of course they could, because you gave them a license to do so.
Facebook and Google do this explicitly already: they use your images and written content, which you presumably have the original copyright on, to sell their products and services (customized ads and the like). They haven't done it with Stross' novel yet, but the legal issues are the same.
Re: Dropbox is in your Office
#154As the Microsoftie in this thread I feel compelled to point out that you don't need an extensive partnership with us to integrate with office. And I'm not talking about the plugin development hell (never had to work with it, but that seemed, erm, "difficult"). Feel free to reach out to me if you have questions, or just read the docs yourself ( http://dev.office.com/ ).
Quick question: why aren't there any code samples [0] in C/C++? It would be nice to at least have a documented C++ WinRT API to work with for those of us that still write native desktop applications/services. I'm sure other folks across the company would agree ;) [0]: http://dev.office.com/code-samples
Take this as my own personal opinion, but before I went back into engineering, I worked with a bunch of developers out there to integrate with all kinds of our stuff - and outside of game development, C/C++ isn't the most popular choice. We have some code samples [0], but I see what you mean.
The office team moving away from the old plugin model and opening up the gates for JS apps and REST APIs made life dramatically easier for a lot of folks. So I assume that samples were written with the most popular choices in mind. Internally, C++ is king [0], of course.
It's also worth pointing out that we always accept code samples from the community :)
[0]: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/office/site/search?f%5B0%5D.... [1]: http://cppcon.org/bonus-talk-cxx-in-ms-office-2014/
Re: Dropbox is in your Office
#155So does this ability to edit in the Dropbox app mean I no longer have any need to buy the iOS versions of Office?
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#156I 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?.
Geeez, can we just stop with this, you are now giving your data to google which has your search history, email etc! If you going to have this stance, build your own solution and host it along with your own email and search engine. I personally fear facebook, google more than the NSA.
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#158Considering the content of other revelations in the form of "X is in your Y" (and the general "I'm in your X, Y-ing your Zs" meme), this seems like an odd choice for a positive article.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Microsoft integrating with competitor's products, this sounds news to me. Or as it was previously known, "Embrace".
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.
For. The. Love. Of. God. Stop meta-commenting on your own downvotes. Don't interject the scoring system into the discussion.
It makes you look like a child. An idiot child.
Re: Dropbox is in your Office
#160I 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?.
Geeez, can we just stop with this, you are now giving your data to google which has your search history, email etc! If you going to have this stance, build your own solution and host it along with your own email and search engine. I personally fear facebook, google more than the NSA.
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