Dropbox is in your Office

I stopped using Dropbox after the whole Condoleezza Rice thing and have been using a mix of Google Drive and OneDrive and I must say I like them a lot better. They do the same (and more if you use other Google Apps) and prices are cheaper. Are there any benefits to using Dropbox?<p>Are there any other real alternatives you could recommend to give them a try?.

I think this is wonderful news.<p>I&#x27;m really tired of having multiple cloud accounts for different types of media. Getting files between the different versions requires me stopping at a desktop to move to the desktop and then back up.<p>At least this gets rid of one of those steps. Now I just wish there were a way to take xlsx&#x27;s from dropbox on the iphone and send it to my work email without it coming as a shared link. I work in a locked down, regulated environment that can&#x27;t open dropbox links. (finance)

Kudos to Microsoft for being open to partnering with Dropbox, as this new functionality appears to overlap with OneDrive. I hope this is another example of MS being more open and flexible after the recent leadership change.

One of the screenshots here shows a user storing both personal and business documents under the same account. Is it no longer the case with Dropbox that if you link your work and personal account, and your employer removes your work credentials, then all your personal files get deleted?

Integration between Box and Office was announced at BoxWorks in September, so this shouldn&#x27;t be a shocker: <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/03/box-pushes-its-office-365-integration-into-beta/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;03&#x2F;box-pushes-its-office-365-i...</a>

As the Microsoftie in this thread I feel compelled to point out that you don&#x27;t need an extensive partnership with us to integrate with office.<p>And I&#x27;m not talking about the plugin development hell (never had to work with it, but that seemed, erm, &quot;difficult&quot;). Feel free to reach out to me if you have questions, or just read the docs yourself (<a href="http://dev.office.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.office.com&#x2F;</a>).

Whoa, hell just froze over. I wonder how the OneDrive team feels about this? This kind of a decision was made at the highest levels of the company.

Microsoft integrating with competitor&#x27;s products, this sounds news to me. A really good move, for both companies.

Oh, this is great news. Dropbox is a great product (no offense, OneDrive), and it&#x27;ll make the entire Office Workflow a great deal cleaner and easier.<p>I&#x27;m also glad to see integration across cloud services. I think this will improve the consumer experience.

Hey Folks. Thomas from IDrive. Just wanted to point out that we offer private key encryption to our users. That means no one, not even Condoleezza Rice, can access your data except you.

This is an interesting move from Microsoft.<p>It will create some competition for OneDrive. But Office 365 subscribers now get unlimited OneDrive space as part of the subscription.<p>My bet is Dropbox integration might get some Dropbox users to buy Office 365. When they realize they get unlimited OneDrive space they might switch to OneDrive.<p>Seems like a good move to be honest.

&quot;We’ll also be releasing a Dropbox app for Windows Phone and Windows tablet users in the coming months.&quot;<p>Not a day too early for the Windows Phone official app and another tick off the list of missing apps for Microsoft&#x27;s mobile platform.

<p><pre><code> We know that much of the world relies on a combination of Dropbox and Microsoft Office to get work done. In fact, Dropbox is home to over 35 billion Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. </code></pre> See, you already lost me as a customer by highlighting the level of access you have into your customer&#x27;s private data, and your willingness to exploit it for commercial gain.

This is great news! Although I imagine this will complicate things for those organisations that block access to Dropbox :)

Very interesting, just wondering but do people think this benefits one company more than the other?<p>I originally thought Microsoft as its a great reason to keep Word relevant by teaming up with such a used storage platform and not succumbing to Google docs, but is that offset by dropbox being able to enter the enterprise world?

As an Office customer and a Dropbox customer, I can&#x27;t help but have mixed feelings. Office already has &quot;direct&quot; OneDrive integration and it&#x27;s pretty useless, how could it be any better on Dropbox?<p>The whole thing about Dropbox is that <i>just works</i>. Files are files, folders are folders, if I move them about they move, etc. The only problem with Dropbox and Office is how Office locks the files so they&#x27;re only synced after I close the Office program, not after every Ctrl+S. Fix that, and it&#x27;s integrated.<p>The whole &quot;save in the cloud&quot; nonsense that desktop Office programs have these days feels like a mistake. I can understand how with iOS&#x27;s &quot;no files&quot; design, this is the only way forward, but on desktop? Please let it stop.

It&#x27;s interesting that the images show the Office app being used on an iPad instead of a Surface.

This is very peculiar. From past Dropbox acquisitions, one can extrapolate they&#x27;re almost certainly working on online collaboration tools. I wonder if Dropbox is using this as a way to gain footholds in large enterprise.

Considering the content of other revelations in the form of &quot;X is in your Y&quot; (and the general &quot;I&#x27;m in your X, Y-ing your Zs&quot; meme), this seems like an odd choice for a <i>positive</i> article.

The managed file transfer sector is hot and there is no winner yet. Even a YC company called WireOver [1] is working in this space.<p>A little bit precient, my company developed a free Outlook add-on to send dropbox files as attachments [2] in 2012.<p>- [1] <a href="http://www.wireover.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wireover.com&#x2F;</a><p>- [2] <a href="http://blog.nektra.com/main/2012/05/23/integrating-dropbox-with-microsoft-outlook/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.nektra.com&#x2F;main&#x2F;2012&#x2F;05&#x2F;23&#x2F;integrating-dropbox-w...</a>

Dropbox isn&#x27;t in my office although I really like Dropbox. However, legal compliance is important in an office environment and Dropbox simply does not provide the necessary data privacy to store business secrets or staff records.<p>Sorry, Dropbox.<p>(Yeah, alternatives are a problem: Wuala is dying and Spideroak isn&#x27;t much better easier. Tresorit might be a future alternative but in spite of having their current version published as 2.x, they have still some way to go …)

I wonder if this is an exclusive deal (no Google Apps).

Dropbox&#x27;s big benefit for me, their pricing and unethical board members aside, is the sheer number of ancillary services that it works with. Odds are if some random desktop or mobile app has implemented a sync-between-devices service, it&#x27;s using Dropbox.<p>That feature is more important to me than just the file storage. Google Drive will become a lot more useful once developers start picking it up.

Good move. Will we see Dropbox part of MS soon?

&gt; Dropbox is home to over 35 billion Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations<p>I was at least one order of magnitude out.

For anyone looking for an Open Source alternative:<p><a href="https://owncloud.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;owncloud.org</a>

I&#x27;m looking forward to accessing Dropbox files from the Office app and saving new files to Dropbox.

Why does nobody ever mention BitTorrent sync as an alternative in these discussions? Is there some reason why it&#x27;s not favoured that I have missed? Edit: Just in case this reads as baiting somehow, it&#x27;s not it&#x27;s a genuine question.

I&#x27;m surprised by Microsoft&#x27;s move here. Why would Microsoft not use OneDrive instead of Dropbox? Dropbox is surely a great product but Microsoft has something similar already. Am I missing something?

So they are just using the Dropbox API like anyone else can do?

So, how long until Microsoft buys Dropbox? Seems kind of strange that they would not be integrating OneDrive into Office rather than Dropbox.

This only seems to be integration with Office web and mobile apps. I don&#x27;t see integration with Office desktop apps.

I really wish I could edit .txt files in the iOS Dropbox app instead. I wonder how much it will increase the app size.

That&#x27;s great news, though a little late. The new iOS 8 document picker allows this in a transparent manner for any storage provider supporting it.<p>Edit: here&#x27;s the documentation: <a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/DocumentPickerProgrammingGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;ios&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;FileMa...</a>

So does this ability to edit in the Dropbox app mean I no longer have any need to buy the iOS versions of Office?

Condoleezza Rice is in your Office

Does this increase the chances that Microsoft will try to buy Dropbox in the future?

Wait. This does not make sense given that MS already provides OneDrive.

&quot;Dropbox is home to over 35 billion Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.&quot;<p>So they&#x27;re reading the files in Dropbox and its contents to know they&#x27;re Office documents?

Why would anyone send anything important into a 3rd party cloud storage? Even if you encrypt your files before sending? Really why?

we use exchange + dropbox, so this will be a nice feature

DB has now become boring. MS is a boring company.

bye bye box.net?

There are options out there (that don&#x27;t have ties to the US military-industrial complex). Check out the free WPS Office. The 2014 beta version has free online backup too: <a href="http://www.wps.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wps.com&#x2F;</a>

Does this mean Condoleezza Rice will be able to see everything that I&#x27;m editing in Office??

Yet another (succesful) attempt of Office to stay integrated into every household. I wish the entire Office suite would kust die over night but sadly it is too settled. There is no competition either or severely crippled.

Dropbox is banned on my office network. Therefore, at least for me, this is a bit useless.

Didn&#x27;t SunOS have pretty much exactly this in 1985?<p>It&#x27;s sad to see things like this being touted as &quot;new&quot;.

To me this sounds very much like &quot;Microsoft is buying Dropbox in the next 6 months&quot;...

Not sure how is this good news for Dropbox?<p>MS is giving office 365 customer free unlimited cloud storage.<p>Now M$ can tell their office (probably soon to be office 365 ) customers: &quot;Good News, we have dropbox support for you, but BTW checkout out our unlimited cloud storage for free too.&quot;<p>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.<p>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.

For me, the fact that Microsoft worked directly with the FBI to integrate OneDrive into PRISM makes the whole product something I would never touch, so it&#x27;s great to see alternatives picking up the slack.<p><a href="http://cryptome.org/2014/11/ms-onedrive-nsa-prism.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryptome.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;ms-onedrive-nsa-prism.htm</a>