Box integration with Outlook.com: Joint customers will be able to seamlessly attach content in Box to emails in the new Outlook.com, replacing the need to save items to a desktop before attaching to an email, and enabling secure email collaboration that’s fully in the cloud. From today, you’ll be able to create and work on documents stored in other storage services.
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Now, Microsoft is extending its Office for iOS integration to all participants in its Cloud Storage Partner Program (CSPP), which it announced in February a year ago to enable cloud storage providers to connect with Office for iOS and Office Online.
Focusing on this announcement for iOS, starting today all CSPP partners can integrate their cloud services into the Office for iOS platform, thus enabling multiple cloud services to be integerated as “Places” within the Office for iOS suite. This means that users of Dropbox and others will now be able to edit and work on their Office Online documents stored in these cloud storage platforms. The companies are part of the Cloud Storage Partner Program (CSPP) that Microsoft introduced past year. “They can now also send documents directly from Dropbox within their Outlook.com account, allowing them to better collaborate regardless of their device or location”, said Kirk Koenigsbauer, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Office. Users now have the capabilities to co-edit files in Office Online.
Announced via the Office Blogs from Microsoft, Dropbox along with Box, Egnyte, and CitrixShareFile now have the ability for real-time collaboration.
“Soon, you’ll be able to choose and send files directly from Dropbox without worrying about attachment limits”, said Michael Shaffer, VP of business development at Dropbox. The Dropbox sharing feature in the Outlook.com will be available in the next few weeks.
According to Box CEO Aaron Levie, the changes required a lot of work from Microsoft to make its systems work with other storage providers. It seems that with all such steps and collaborations, Microsoft is preparing Office Online to be a much stronger contender to Google Docs.
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