Dropbox, Box Integration Extends Reach Of Office Everywhere

Jun 14, 2015 | Android, Apple, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, iPad, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, phone, tablet, web_services

Previously: The Threat That Nearly Destroyed Microsoft Office Microsoft opened the Office programs to third party cloud services in February. Since then, connections have been added at a dizzying pace for directly accessing files stored in other services. Dropbox and...

What The Deal Between Dropbox And Microsoft Really Means

Nov 6, 2014 | Android, Apple, Box, Dropbox, Google, Google Drive, iPad, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, Outlook, software, tablet, web_services

Dropbox and Microsoft unexpectedly announced a partnership to allow Office users to access and edit files stored in Dropbox directly from Office apps on phones, tablets and the web. The announcement comes just a week after Microsoft eviscerated Dropbox’s business...

Microsoft Changes The Game With Unlimited OneDrive Storage

Oct 29, 2014 | Box, Dropbox, file_sharing, Google, Google Drive, Microsoft, Office 365, OneDrive, web_services

On Monday Microsoft left Dropbox and Google Drive in the dust when it announced that all Office 365 customers will get unlimited OneDrive storage at no additional cost. The upgrade will be delivered soon to everyone with a consumer (Microsoft account) subscription to...

Moving Company Files To The Cloud: The Problem With OneDrive For Business

Oct 13, 2014 | Dropbox, file_sharing, Google Drive, Microsoft, Office 365, OneDrive, web_services

Small businesses and law firms are ready to move their documents to the cloud. Until recently, I haven’t had an answer about how to accomplish that because none of the familiar solutions were quite right. Let’s get some background, using OneDrive for Business as an...

Dropbox Lowers Prices, Still Comes Out Behind OneDrive

Sep 1, 2014 | Amazon, Android, Dropbox, file_sharing, Google Drive, Office 365, OneDrive, web_services

The cost of online storage continues to drop as Microsoft, Google and Amazon race to build out enormous online data storehouses. Last week Dropbox finally dropped its price for 1Tb of online file storage to $9.99/month to match the competition. Google Drive and...

Still More Free OneDrive Storage. Can Dropbox survive?

Jun 25, 2014 | file_sharing, Google, Google Drive, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, photos, web_services

This week Microsoft announced huge increases in the amount of free online storage space with each OneDrive account, and sharply reduced prices again for additional space. Synced online file storage is turning into a basic component of our devices, something that we...