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Not sure how is this good news for Dropbox? MS is giving office 365 customer free unlimited cloud storage. Now M$ can tell their office (probably soon to be
by tkinom 12y ago
Not sure how is this good news for Dropbox?
MS is giving office 365 customer free unlimited cloud storage.
Now M$ can tell their office (probably soon to be office 365 ) customers: "Good News, we have dropbox support for you, but BTW checkout out our unlimited cloud storage for free too."
For me, it is a bit like MS in 90 said we have strong competitor call Netscape while pre install IE for free to kill Netscape. It is assimilation strategy from the old play book.
Dropbox has little choose on this as Box are doing it and their enterprise customers might also demand it. They have to the poison pill.
- mh8h 12y agoIt's good for Dropbox, because they can push further into the enterprise market. When business users try to decide between Dropbox and OneDrive, Office integration won't be an issue for Dropbox any more. Dropbox has its own merits over OneDrive. OneDrive is not as friendly and feature-complete as Dropbox is. And Dropbox has far better APIs when it comes to integrating with other services. And as far as Microsoft is concerned, the partnership improves people's productivity.
- matthewmacleod 12y agoWhat? That makes no sense. Dropbox has moved from "no interoperability with Office" to "interoperability with Office". How can that be a bad thing?
- stinos 12y agoa bit like MS in 90 don't you mean M$ there :P No offense meant, but you know, it's a bit difficult to take people serious when they use terms like that.