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Microsoft Adding Dropbox Integration to Mobile and Web Office Suites

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Microsoft and Dropbox today announced a partnership that will bring Dropbox support to Microsoft's suite of Office mobile apps. Microsoft will add this new Dropbox feature in upcoming versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint for the iPhone and iPad.

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The new Dropbox integration would allow Office users to open, edit and share files that are stored in Dropbox. After adding a Dropbox account to an Office app, users will be able browse their Dropbox contents, which appear alongside OneDrive and locally stored files. All mobile edits will be synced to Dropbox automatically with a sharing option available within the Office app.
Over the coming weeks, we're updating Office apps so that they work with Dropbox, too. With the next updates to Word, Excel and PowerPoint on iPhone, iPad and Android Phone you'll be able to connect to your Dropbox account, so you can access, edit and share your Dropbox files right from your Office apps. Once you've added your Dropbox account to Word, Excel or PowerPoint, you can navigate folders and files on Dropbox for viewing and editing in the native Office apps. And accessing Word, PowerPoint and Excel from your Dropbox app is just as easy. Navigate to the file you want, and the Dropbox app will open the Office app you need.
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This collaborative effort is only in the beginning stages, with plans to expand Dropbox integration to other Microsoft products over time. After updating its mobile apps in the coming weeks, Microsoft is planning to add Dropbox support to its Office online web apps early next year.

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Cool, but I've been happy with OneDrive, especially in going to unlimited storage. I've all but dropped Dropbox
 
Pretty nice considering they launched their own one drive cloud storage product.

nice to have options
 
Dropbox is now big enough that even a product as big as Office can't afford to ignore them.

This is a big day for Dropbox.
 
I have a Dropbox account but haven't used it in over 2 years. Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive these days..



:apple:
 
This is good news. I'm hoping the more this happens, the more Dropbox will be pushed to add more to their free and tiered storage.
 
Fantastic! Been using Dropbox for years and integration with Office for iPad will make it so much easier than having to open multiple apps to edit simple documents (an exceptionally slow process on iPad 2)
 
I'm confused. Will Microsoft be discontinuing OneDrive? What exactly does having integration with Dropbox do for users that integration with OneDrive didn't?
 
So I guess, even Microsoft has accepted that OneDrive is sh**. Dropbox integration is excellent news for consumers.
 
brianvictor7 said:
I wish Apple would buy Dropbox and use it. I love its versatility.
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Absolutey NOT! I don't want a great service ruined or made :apple: devices exclusive or simply shut down.

Thankfully Dropbox has firmly resisted buyout proposals (including from Apple, if I remember correctly).
 
brianvictor7 said:
I wish Apple would buy Dropbox and use it. I love its versatility.
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Steve Jobs did offer to buy Dropbox a long while back back Houston (CEO of Dropbox) declined the offer. Steve said they would wipe them out, but clearly that did not happen and Dropbox is incredibly larger and more successful now so 0 chance of Apple being able to buy them.

The best they can do is hope to poach Dropbox engineers to steal their ideas, but legally I'm sure Dropbox has a lot of contracts to prevent that.
 
lol I moved to OneDrive because it was integrated with the Office suite. Either way, OD is adequate for me.
 
Sandstorm said:
Absolutey NOT! I don't want a great service ruined or made :apple: devices exclusive or simply shut down.

Thankfully Dropbox has firmly resisted buyout proposals (including from Apple, if I remember correctly).
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That, sadly, makes sense.

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TechRemarker said:
Steve Jobs did offer to buy Dropbox a long while back back Houston (CEO of Dropbox) declined the offer. Steve said they would wipe them out, but clearly that did not happen and Dropbox is incredibly larger and more successful now so 0 chance of Apple being able to buy them.

The best they can do is hope to poach Dropbox engineers to steal their ideas, but legally I'm sure Dropbox has a lot of contracts to prevent that.
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I didn't know this. Thanks.

You know, the more I use apple products, the more I find I like the look, quality and support of their hardware better than anyone elses, the unity of their software is still excellent across platforms, but I find myself struggling with the limitations the enforce. Maybe I'm just having a bad day, but that is the feeling I have.
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
I'm confused. Will Microsoft be discontinuing OneDrive? What exactly does having integration with Dropbox do for users that integration with OneDrive didn't?
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No way is Microsoft discontinuing OneDrive. Microsoft (like any other tech company) wants users. This is a way to get all of those users who prefer Dropbox over other storage solutions but also prefer Office over other productivity tools. And that number of users is very high.

The hope here is to get them in the ecosystem, and then at some point convert them over to OneDrive users. For Dropbox, storage is the main thing. Microsoft can take the hit and offer unlimited storage for free (because they make their money on Office and storage is just a value-add for them), but Dropbox can't afford to do that.

Keep in mind that Dropbox is building it's own suite (if you can call it that) of productivity tools as well. Adding the ability for users to collaborate on documents that are inside of their Dropbox folder, is an example.
 
danthe93 said:
Finally! Some choice!
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exactly. give the user the choice and work on your product in the meantime and make us want to use it.

back in the day microsoft would be the last company one would expect to see a move like this from but now it would probably be apple.
 
Microsoft is making Office for iPad so attractive, I might just have to buy a subscription.

(this might be their plan)
 
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