Ondrej Holzman A rather surprising partnership was announced by Microsoft, which is planning to integrate Dropbox cloud storage into its Word, Excel and PowerPoint mobile applications in the near future, despite the fact that it is a direct competitor to its OneDrive service. Users will especially benefit from the alliance between Microsoft and Dropbox.
Files stored in Dropbox will appear directly in Word, Excel and PowerPoint on mobile devices, which can be edited in the classic way, and the changes will be automatically uploaded to Dropbox again. Pairing with the Office suite will also be evident in the Dropbox application, which will prompt users to download Office applications to edit relevant documents.
Users of this cloud storage will certainly benefit from the connection with Dropbox, for whom editing Office documents will now be much easier. However, the problem may be on the side of Microsoft, which allows full functionality of Word, Excel and PowerPoint on the iPad only as part of an Office 365 subscription, and those who do not pay will not be able to take advantage of the close integration of Office and Dropbox.
In the first half of 2015, Dropbox wants to make document editing available directly from its web application. Documents would be edited through Microsoft's web applications (Office Online) and then saved directly to Dropbox. However, the collaboration between Microsoft and Dropbox is just beginning and we will see what else the two companies have in store. However, the news revealed so far is certainly good news especially for the end user.
I'm missing the point. Why store documents on dropbox when the customer gets many times more cloud storage as part of Office 365.
I don't use either so I don't know.
In the first approximation, I also miss the point. There may be a large number of users who have their Word and Excel files on Dropbox and for some reason are too lazy (or have other reasons) to move them to OneDrive. Microsoft is afraid that it will leave Office because of this, so it prefers to let them use any cloud storage, because it is more economically viable for them. But maybe I'm wrong. Does anyone have experience with multi-user collaborative work on one document in Office? Honestly, iWork is about 10 years behind Google Doc (unless I missed a recent update)
Well, for example because OneDrive cannot yet synchronize shared folders directly on the user's computer. On top of that, people don't want to move a large number of documents, etc. Otherwise, shared work with office documents on a sharepoint server has a tradition for many years, so it definitely works :-)
Well, for example because OneDrive cannot yet synchronize shared folders directly on the user's computer. On top of that, people don't want to move a large number of documents, etc. Otherwise, shared work with office documents on a sharepoint server has a tradition for many years, so it definitely works :-)