The partnership is not free from corporate competitive business politics, but this hardly matters for the end user – we just get to sIT back and enjoy what can now be accomplished with the new integration. Meanwhile, Office has 1.2 billion users.” “While in a perfect Microsoft world,” Perez continues, “all Office users would rely on OneDrive and OneDrive for Business, Dropbox has amassed a user base of about 300 million people. Dropbox is one of Microsoft OneDrive’s main competitors, though the former is of course vastly more popular than the latter in terms of cloud storage.Īnd this indeed is probably why this “coopetitive” relationship has been struck – Dropbox and Microsoft 365 undoubtedly have a huge number of shared customers, which, according to Juan Carlos Perez on, “currently store 35 billion Office files in Dropbox. The move to a partnership can be seen as a rather magnanimous one for both parties, but especially Microsoft perhaps. “You’ll also be able to access your Dropbox directly from Office Online, so you can open any of your Dropbox files - and save new files to Dropbox - without leaving Office Online.” Any changes will automatically be saved back to your Dropbox.
Just click the ‘Open’ button when you’re previewing a Dropbox file on the web, and you can edIT the file right from your browser via Office Online. “What does that mean for you? For starters, you don’t need the desktop versions of Microsoft Office - or even your own computer - to update any Office files stored in your Dropbox. We’ve released a new integration with Microsoft Office Online, so you can edIT any Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Excel files in your Dropbox directly from your web browser. “We’re willing to bet that your Dropbox is home to quite a few Microsoft Office files - and starting today, working with those files is even easier. So what does this mean for users? I think it’s simplest to let the Dropbox blog explain, before I take you on a walkthrough of how to enable the integration to make the most of this new partnership: The partnership began in November last year, but IT wasn’t until April 2015 that Microsoft and Dropbox announced that users can now add their Dropbox cloud storage accounts to the online version of Microsoft Office, Office 365.
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