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100%. I shut down DropBox at last $dayjob (mid-size) after piloting OneDrive. Saved tens of thousands a year. OneDrive was inferior, no doubt, but good enough.

100%. I shut down DropBox at last $dayjob (mid-size) after piloting OneDrive. Saved tens of thousands a year. OneDrive was inferior, no doubt, but good enough. And will only become better. More importantly, I cannot imagine anyone building better integration with Office (live editing) than the actual Office company.

tinus_hn 7y ago
It’s hard to imagine a product as fragile as OneDrive though. People do lose files on it.
Ididntdothis 7y ago
“More importantly, I cannot imagine anyone building better integration with Office (live editing) than the actual Office company.” After working with their stuff I totally can :) Joke aside, MS is doing a great job commoditizing the space around Office 365 with Teams and OneDrive. I think DropBox and Slack are feeling a lot of pressure right now.
mbesto 7y ago
> OneDrive was inferior, no doubt, but good enough. And will only become better. I'll hold my breath. Dropbox basically had sync across all major OS's ready to work very early in its life (10 years ago?). The fact that OneDrive and Box's desktop sync performs so poorly leads me to believe this is not where their engineering effort is and nor will it anytime soon (it's probably more on the back-end admin for enterprise clients).
- hnews_account_1 7y ago
  In my experience, if you're not doing programmatic access into your synced folders, onedrive and Dropbox perform similarly enough to not make a noticeable difference to the average user. But if you do large amount of read / writes to the folder, both of them struggle with it. My company currently does this currently, as we wait for a more seamless system to be set up. So it does a write every minute of the day to a Dropbox sync folder. Which only syncs up once every few minutes. So essentially I do miss a few minutes in a day, but since it's just a human consuming the data, I don't mind.
- tyingq 7y ago
  OneDrive just added differential sync last month. So, very late to the party, but maybe finally spending some R&D money.
- nickflood 7y ago
  As a OneDrive user, I'd say it got much better in the last year or two. Before that it was kinda janky, but now it's fast and reliable on Windows to the point where I trust it as much as Dropbox (occasionally I use it too). It's also the only cloud storage provider that allows you to have files-on-demand feature on free tier account on Mac OS. Others (Dropbox and Google Drive) only enable it at on Terabyte plans.
narsil 7y ago
> integration with Office (live editing) The protocol is actually available for any cloud storage vendor to work with: https://wopi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://wopi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Landing page: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/cloud-storage-partner-program https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/cloud-storage-p...

tinus_hn 7y ago

It’s hard to imagine a product as fragile as OneDrive though. People do lose files on it.

Ididntdothis 7y ago

“More importantly, I cannot imagine anyone building better integration with Office (live editing) than the actual Office company.” After working with their stuff I totally can :) Joke aside, MS is doing a great job commoditizing the space around Office 365 with Teams and OneDrive. I think DropBox and Slack are feeling a lot of pressure right now.

mbesto 7y ago

> OneDrive was inferior, no doubt, but good enough. And will only become better. I'll hold my breath. Dropbox basically had sync across all major OS's ready to work very early in its life (10 years ago?). The fact that OneDrive and Box's desktop sync performs so poorly leads me to believe this is not where their engineering effort is and nor will it anytime soon (it's probably more on the back-end admin for enterprise clients).

hnews_account_1 7y ago
In my experience, if you're not doing programmatic access into your synced folders, onedrive and Dropbox perform similarly enough to not make a noticeable difference to the average user. But if you do large amount of read / writes to the folder, both of them struggle with it. My company currently does this currently, as we wait for a more seamless system to be set up. So it does a write every minute of the day to a Dropbox sync folder. Which only syncs up once every few minutes. So essentially I do miss a few minutes in a day, but since it's just a human consuming the data, I don't mind.
tyingq 7y ago
OneDrive just added differential sync last month. So, very late to the party, but maybe finally spending some R&D money.
nickflood 7y ago
As a OneDrive user, I'd say it got much better in the last year or two. Before that it was kinda janky, but now it's fast and reliable on Windows to the point where I trust it as much as Dropbox (occasionally I use it too). It's also the only cloud storage provider that allows you to have files-on-demand feature on free tier account on Mac OS. Others (Dropbox and Google Drive) only enable it at on Terabyte plans.

narsil 7y ago

> integration with Office (live editing) The protocol is actually available for any cloud storage vendor to work with: https://wopi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://wopi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Landing page: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/cloud-storage-partner-program https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/cloud-storage-p...