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Microsoft Adding Dropbox Integration to Mobile and Web Office Suites
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You guys that buy "once" then keep using the same crap version for a decade amaze me.
MS knows the subscription route is a tough sell. That's why they throw in that 1TB of cloud storage.
The thing is, if they were stand alone apps, most people would only want to pay like $9.99 for unlimited support. Microsoft just isn't going to sell their suite for that.
Steve was right that cloud storage was just a feature. But if a feature is ubiquitous enough it seems that the bigger players will endorse it.
OneDrive + Word on iPad
I can never get my OneDrive and Word (or other office programs) to work together on my iPad. Whenever I try to add the service or send a doc to the cloud and log in it tells me this doesn't work. This might be because my Office and OneDrive use different accounts (Office is free from uni, OneDrive is not and can't sign up for it with my free account), but I don't see any reason that should matter.
I can never get my OneDrive and Word (or other office programs) to work together on my iPad. Whenever I try to add the service or send a doc to the cloud and log in it tells me this doesn't work. This might be because my Office and OneDrive use different accounts (Office is free from uni, OneDrive is not and can't sign up for it with my free account), but I don't see any reason that should matter.
Office department vs Onedrive
To integrate Dropbox with Office will make it better for Dropbox users. That's what guys in Microsoft Office department want to see. As for MS' own cloud service, Microsoft won't see Dropbox as a direct threat. Win-Win.
To integrate Dropbox with Office will make it better for Dropbox users. That's what guys in Microsoft Office department want to see. As for MS' own cloud service, Microsoft won't see Dropbox as a direct threat. Win-Win.
I'm the same, I moved from google drive which was superb to be fair.
iCloud Drive is disabled on all my devices but it would be nice to eventually be able to use native OS support
How about being able to use 2 different apps to access the same file?
As for the addition of DropBox support to mobile/web Office... greatly appreciated. I've given OneDrive a fair shot but the OSX client is merely adequate. When working with multiple platforms I find DropBox to be more consistent and reliable.
IF you have access to it, you can use it a portable storage. Which you can then use to email attach *any* file. Have you ever wondered why you can only attach pictures to an email on your ios device?
now, to correct some of your statements:
ios has file system - true
just not folder based - false. it is indeed folder based. if you are jailbroken, use iFile to see it.
tightly controlled user access - false. user have no access at all. even if jailbroken, its quite cumbersome to use. you can pretty much just browse. folders are named with long strings.
I agree that the OneDrive Mac client is truly pathetic (still no dark mode Yosemite icon), but I only have 7GB of Dropbox space and have unlimited OneDrive (of which I'm using 15GB). I'm not going to pay a subscription to Dropbox when I'm already paying one to MS. I just wish I could get more space, but I don't people to refer.
Damn straight. With everything going platform specific these days, it's nice knowing that there are still some services out there that aren't directly tied to any of the big three.
Office 365 has been the biggest game changer for me in the past 6 months. Dropbox is icing on the cake but they really need to add more free storage. I am migrating more over to OneDrive now.
Then your subscription is bugged.
I also got the University version and MS gave me 1TB
You should be cheking on that because MS really gives you 1TB
Read
http://blogs.office.com/2014/06/23/1-tb-of-onedrive-storage-coming-to-an-office-365-near-you/
If their productivity apps are neutered, what does that say about everything else that does less?
Speaking of iOS file managers and MS adding DropBox support... I've found that opening any Office document from inside Dropbox causes the obligatory "duplicate/copy" of that file to be made in the receiving Office app. Whereas... opening that same file inside OneDrive simply launches the app. No duplicates.
So, if one wants to be use the DropBox app to launch Office files... forget it. Instead you'll have to do it from within Excel, Word, PowerPoint. (The good old app-centric way because we're too stupid to do it otherwise).
This is very important for me since OneDrive doesn't support Windows XP which is the OS of my work computer
Your work computer is a Win xp machine ? OUCH !
I heard they were working on some kind of document editing capabilities, but that is too crowded a market. Dropbox Office will never be able to effectively take a saturated market with Office, Google Docs, iWork, Open Office, etc.
Sadly, cloud storage is also a saturated market. Dropbox still has the best desktop client and 3rd party integration and I'd be willing to pay them even though I have unlimited OneDrive, but I won't pay $120 a year. I'd pay $1 or so a month (big spender, I know, but it's more than I'm paying them now) if they'd offer anything between FREE and 1TB.