The company Microsoft has made a strong claim to leadership. Concern Bill gates suddenly allowed to freely create and edit documents in Office for iPhone, iPad and Android tablets.
Microsoft announced a partnership with Dropbox, which will be combined efficiency mobile Office apps and Dropbox. For several weeks, users will be able to download on tablets and phones running iOS and Android latest version of the Office applications that you find options file access Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and folders in the repository and sharing through Dropbox files.
"In the era of cloud and mobile technologies people need more common methods of creating, sharing and interaction regardless of the underlying platform. Together with Dropbox we will be able to offer our General visitors more flexible tools", - said the General Director of Microsoft Sathya Nadella.
In the updated Dropbox app for iOS and Android are the functions of editing and synchronizing files, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on all devices. A new version of the Dropbox application will also be released for several weeks. In the beginning of 2015 this functionality will be included in the web sites Office Online and Dropbox.
In addition, in the framework of the joint work, the company Dropbox has promised to release the first version of the official apps for Windows Phone and tablets based on the Windows with a touch screen in the coming months. In present day customer Dropbox feature for Android, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry and Kindle Fire, says Cnews.ru.
Experts call announcement, Microsoft and Dropbox "unexpected - negodnym". The thing that Microsoft and Dropbox, in fact, considered to be competitors. Both companies have cloud storage, which, among other things, is one of the most famous in the market. Dropbox offers 2 GB of free space and 1 TB for $ 9.99 per month. Microsoft has recently made its cloud storage OneDrive not diminishing - the user only needs to subscribe to Office 365 to get unlimited space for files.
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