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So, how long until Microsoft buys Dropbox? Seems kind of strange that they would not be integrating OneDrive into Office rather than Dropbox.

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OneDrive is already integrated into Office. Microsoft is just ensuring that Office is a platform that everyone uses even if they don't use other Microsoft services.

It's also a way to push their OneDrive team to make a better product in true Gates competitive spirit.

Ugh, I hope it doesn't get acquired by Microsoft, of all companies. I use Dropbox specifically because it doesn't try to be too much, which makes it extremely flexible. In fact I use it for a million things other than file sharing.

My hope is that will never happend. It's just hope. Since FoxPro many years ago, there is not a single acquisition by Microsoft that turned in a great product or an improvement to the end user (please, include in this scope Groove Networks, whichi was great at that time).

There's lots of good Microsoft acquisitions since FoxPro. Like:

- Visio

- Bungie Software (Halo)

- Groove

etc...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...

Yeah but has any of it got better?

Skype, Halo, Minecraft? I think not.

> Since FoxPro many years ago, there is not a single acquisition by Microsoft that turned in a great product or an improvement to the end user

Plenty of FoxPro stuff ended up in SQL Server. Client cursor engine is the first thing that comes to mind (RDO, too, IIRC). The product itself was allowed to languish, but the good parts went into other things.

But for the most part I'd say you're spot on. I can't think of anything else that ultimately went on better things under Microsoft's flag, or benefited other products with the acquired product's technology.

Onedrive is deep in Office. Latest version defaults to trying to get you to save on your OneDrive

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