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To me this sounds very much like "Microsoft is buying Dropbox in the next 6 months"...

• cwyers 12y ago
  What would Microsoft want Dropbox for? They don't have any infrastructure Microsoft would want (MS runs Azure, while Dropbox just rents off AWS), Microsoft has OneDrive clients for most of the platforms Dropbox is on... it doesn't seem to me that Dropbox has anything Microsoft can't just add to their own service.
  • johansch 12y ago
    Users and paying customers?
  • ryanhunt 12y ago
    1. Market reach, it's where the customers are. Compare the sheer number of apps that have native Dropbox integration, with those that have OneDrive. While it's far from scientific, nearly everyone I know has a Dropbox account - very few have a OneDrive account. 2. It makes their own OneDrive service seem even more competitive. Why pay for Dropbox when you can buy Office365 for about the same price and get unlimited storage?
  • diestl 12y ago
    You could say the same about Google (Google+) and Facebook. Users!!!!
  • pistle 12y ago
    They could feasibly even create slopes that could pull dropbox into renting in Azure to achieve specific value-adds with MS integration. Overall, it looks like a plus for consumers with not a specific downside being described by anyone (yet?).
  • bluedino 12y ago
    They could make them switch to Azure like they made Hotmail switch from BSD to NT