[gum_ina_package]

Whoa, hell just froze over. I wonder how the OneDrive team feels about this? This kind of a decision was made at the highest levels of the company.

[jbigelow76]

Office is THE cash cow, OneDrive is (probably) a loss leader. Anything that can be done to ensure Office's continued near ubiquity, reduce usage friction, and shore up beach heads against competitors looking for an area to drive a wedge in will be done.

[marcosdumay]

Well, that's really a new Microsoft.

Just a short while ago, anything that could be done to make their products more integrated, and increase lock-in would be done. It didn't really matter if the benefited product made money or not. (For a very visible blow, look at the Windows Phone and Windows 8.)

It's great to see that changing.

[dudus]

Why would they feel bad? They probably want to have a successful product not because the user has no option but for its own merits.

[simonh]

Try that line on Bill Gates in his prime.

[NicoJuicy]

The more integrations, the better....

[funkyy]

It sounds more like Microsoft wanting to bring Dropbox in to its influence area. Possible acquisition, lobbying strategy or marketing stunt sounds right.

[free2rhyme214]

No it sounds like Microsoft wants its users to use Office documents as opposed to Google Drive.

Box and Dropbox support office formats which makes sense why they'd partner with them to perpetuate this usage.

[izolate]

Kind of like what Microsoft did to Facebook.