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I use Onedrive with 1TB = $30 / year, which also allows me to use Office documents with clients of mine (who all use Microsoft Office and Outlook.) The convenie

I use Onedrive with 1TB = $30 / year, which also allows me to use Office documents with clients of mine (who all use Microsoft Office and Outlook.) The convenience of the "syncing folder" is still the same, and I trust that Msft will be around longer.

danudey 12y ago
My experience with Onedrive (when it was Skydrive) was fairly straightforward: the OS X client crashed all the time, when it even started properly at all, and the Windows 8.1 integration worked flawlessly. Dropbox, on the other hand, works flawlessly on both. I trust that Microsoft will be around longer vs. Dropbox in its current form, but I'm still not convinced that Microsoft 'gets it' yet. With the new third-party cloud integration in iOS 8 and Yosemite I think this is a great opportunity for both to pick up a lot of users, though, and it'll even the playing field as far as engineering goes, so this is a good time to be on either one.
rjohnk 12y ago
I agree. I have the $99/year plan. It's like getting Office for free. I'd love to support Dropbox monetarily as I've been there since the early days, but having an integrated office suite beats it out. What they should do is partner with Corel and offer Wordperfect X7 with Pro, or have a $129/year version that includes it.
teamonkey 12y ago
I got 200GB for free with my Surface and I migrated away from Dropbox almost immediately. The thing I like most about it is that it's totally transparent, moreso than the Dropbox client. It also does some kind of transparent archiving (easily switched off on a per-file or directory level) that removes local files if they haven't been used for a while and automatically re-downloads them if you try to access them. Perfect for directories full of photos. The biggest flaw I've found is that it doesn't support long path names. npm stores its modules in very deep directory structure that absolutely will not sync.

danudey 12y ago

My experience with Onedrive (when it was Skydrive) was fairly straightforward: the OS X client crashed all the time, when it even started properly at all, and the Windows 8.1 integration worked flawlessly. Dropbox, on the other hand, works flawlessly on both. I trust that Microsoft will be around longer vs. Dropbox in its current form, but I'm still not convinced that Microsoft 'gets it' yet. With the new third-party cloud integration in iOS 8 and Yosemite I think this is a great opportunity for both to pick up a lot of users, though, and it'll even the playing field as far as engineering goes, so this is a good time to be on either one.

rjohnk 12y ago

I agree. I have the $99/year plan. It's like getting Office for free. I'd love to support Dropbox monetarily as I've been there since the early days, but having an integrated office suite beats it out. What they should do is partner with Corel and offer Wordperfect X7 with Pro, or have a $129/year version that includes it.

teamonkey 12y ago

I got 200GB for free with my Surface and I migrated away from Dropbox almost immediately. The thing I like most about it is that it's totally transparent, moreso than the Dropbox client. It also does some kind of transparent archiving (easily switched off on a per-file or directory level) that removes local files if they haven't been used for a while and automatically re-downloads them if you try to access them. Perfect for directories full of photos. The biggest flaw I've found is that it doesn't support long path names. npm stores its modules in very deep directory structure that absolutely will not sync.