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    News - Microsoft teams up with Dropbox for Office integration

    The surprise partnership will see Microsoft's own cloud service take a back seat.
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    Re: News - Microsoft teams up with Dropbox for Office integration

    This is a massive addition for me, very tempted to get 365 now

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    Re: News - Microsoft teams up with Dropbox for Office integration

    which is funny, because if you've got 365, why on earth would you want dropbox?
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    Re: News - Microsoft teams up with Dropbox for Office integration

    to access office documents on work computers which do not have Office 365 installed on them

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    Re: News - Microsoft teams up with Dropbox for Office integration

    Quote Originally Posted by Cheshh View Post
    to access office documents on work computers which do not have Office 365 installed on them
    Which you can do via the OneDrive and web end functionality, which is far better than that of dropbox.
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    Re: News - Microsoft teams up with Dropbox for Office integration

    Yeah seems a strange one to me too although it clearly is a usage scenario for some people.

    I've got a dropbox and box account (50gb free with hp touchpad) which I never use, a google drive I rarely use and a onedrive that I use the most, but even that is not that often. I'm just not sure I want to send files via the cloud due to privacy concerns.

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    Re: News - Microsoft teams up with Dropbox for Office integration

    Nice idea but will you still get the same amount of storage that you currently do with Office 365. I signed up and got 1tb. Its costs less than the 1tb package dropbox offers and obviously I get the full office suite too.

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    Re: News - Microsoft teams up with Dropbox for Office integration

    awesome! This was quite unexpected!

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    Re: News - Microsoft teams up with Dropbox for Office integration

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Cheshh View Post
    to access office documents on work computers which do not have Office 365 installed on them
    Which you can do via the OneDrive and web end functionality, which is far better than that of dropbox.
    I know I could... I prefer DropBox. I would rather have a single cloud solution for all my files

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    Re: News - Microsoft teams up with Dropbox for Office integration

    Quote Originally Posted by Cheshh View Post
    I know I could... I prefer DropBox. I would rather have a single cloud solution for all my files
    So you accept my point that the web interface for OneDrive is better, far far better for handling Office documents in a browser. Given that OneDrive has more space for files, has sync tools for all platforms.... Can't see why anyone would choose dropbox on functionality.

    Throw in their security record, why would anyone use DropBox at all. Still can't see it.
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    Re: News - Microsoft teams up with Dropbox for Office integration

    Suspect argument at MS went something like 'all the cool kids who do BYOD hip stuff are using Dropbox - we got to join them'. End of. Rationality isn't a major feature of the ipad era.

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    Re: News - Microsoft teams up with Dropbox for Office integration

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
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    Throw in their security record, why would anyone use DropBox at all. Still can't see it.
    Well, you could prepare an advert for your products and services, save it in a file marked "strictly confidential" and upload it to Dropbox. It's a cheaper way to disseminate info than a TV Ad.

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    Re: News - Microsoft teams up with Dropbox for Office integration

    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen View Post
    Well, you could prepare an advert for your products and services, save it in a file marked "strictly confidential" and upload it to Dropbox. It's a cheaper way to disseminate info than a TV Ad.
    Next you will be suggesting that a Kardashian intentionally failed to use good practice in securing the storage of their 'sex' tape.
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    Re: News - Microsoft teams up with Dropbox for Office integration

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    Next you will be suggesting that a Kardashian intentionally failed to use good practice in securing the storage of their 'sex' tape.
    Publicity-seeking celeb in totally accidentally failing to avoid PR coup shock!

    Shirley Knott?

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    Re: News - Microsoft teams up with Dropbox for Office integration

    Find OneDrive hopelessly unreliable and has been that way over the last 15 months of use, very frustrating and constant crashes or failed sync's due to one problem or another. Dropbox is great but cant really be used for lots of business due to their policies of hosting files and accessing them on request... I wonder if Microsoft will fix this in the process...

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