Dropbox Microsoft announces further partnership with Dropbox

Summary: A few months ago, cloud storage services released a project harmony plan designed to integrate with Microsoft Office. Now that the plan has finally come to fruition, Dropbox Microsoft and Dropbox today announced a further partnership, the latter's cloud storage services will be tightly

A few months ago, cloud storage services released a project Harmony program designed to integrate with Microsoft Office. Now that the plan has finally come to fruition, Dropbox Microsoft and Dropbox today announced a further partnership in which cloud storage services will be tightly integrated into Microsoft Office.

Cooperation includes 4 parts: 1 Edit Office documents conveniently in Dropbox mobile app, 2 access Dropbox documents within Office app, 3 share Dropbox links in office app; 4 Dropbox The app is recommended for installing Office mobile apps.

Dropbox users who use Office across platforms (desktops, mobile, WEB) will benefit from using Office to edit documents such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and so on, wherever they are stored in the Dropbox cloud storage service. The ipad and Android Office will be upgraded over the next few weeks to allow Dropbox users to connect their accounts directly to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint IPad apps. This means that Dropbox files and directories can appear directly on the ipad version of Office.

This cooperation is the direct embodiment of Microsoft Mobile priority, cloud priority strategic transformation, also shows that the former Giants have become more open, no longer stand on their laurels, building walled gardens, but with customer demand as a priority-although Microsoft's OneDrive has a direct competitive relationship with Dropbox. Office documents on integrated Dropbox can also be opened and edited directly in the ipad version of the Office app, enjoying the same treatment as OneDrive. In addition, the Office app also integrates Dropbox sharing features, and users can share Dropbox documents within the Office app. Kirk Koenigsbauer, head of Microsoft's Office engineering team, said access to Dropbox content was a priority for the ipad version of Office users. Of course, Dropbox nearly 300 million users, 80,000 pay companies is Microsoft can not ignore the huge market.

Of course, Dropbox also want to bypass for Microsoft. The former will add options to their mobile app, which prompts the user to download the Office app when they try to open the Office document in the cloud store, and the user's phone does not have Office App,dropbox installed, and the office After app editing, the document can also be synchronized back seamlessly to Dropbox. But now that the ipad and the Android version of Office require users to order Office 365 to edit the document, Microsoft's move to make it a success is best done by ordering Office 365 to be free.

Dropbox also plans to support Office Online on its Web applications directly in the first half of 2015. This allows users to edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint through Microsoft's Office Web app, and then save it back to Dropbox. Given that 35 billion of Office documents are stored on Dropbox, this collaboration will have a huge effect.