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Dropbox and Microsoft team up, placing Office in the cloud

This article is about how Microsoft and Dropbox, two online new and digital media institutions are partnering up in order to integrate Microsoft Office into the cloud even though Microsoft have their own cloud service called One Drive.

• “Today, Dropbox has 300 million users, of whom 70% are international, and a ton of them use Dropbox to get work done,”
• ‘These people have uploaded something like 35bn Office files. Today, they get a great experience on the desktop, but what we’re doing now is taking that experience to mobile and the web.”

This article is interesting as it shows how two institutions have to merge in order to become more successful and although Microsoft is one of the largest institutions in the world, they still need some support.