Use Dropbox for sharing Office documents and collaboration on editing, but it’s not ideal. Another use for Dropbox is sharing Office documents and collaboration on editing, but it’s not ideal. With Office 2013 you can do this better with Skydrive because Microsoft’s own cloud storage allows simultaneous collaboration – in other words more than one […]
A simple guide to sending files via Dropbox. There are many ways to send files that are too big for email (usually over 20MB). In this article we’ll look at how to do that with Dropbox either sending a ‘one-off’ file or regularly exchanging files with someone else. Dropbox is very popular, generally free and well […]
Getting the free Dropbox software. The free Dropbox program is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. It will synchronize your cloud storage with local folders, saving you the hassle of manually uploading/downloading each file. All the file transfers happen in the background. Dropbox software is the best and easiest way to use Dropbox storage. Most […]
It’s not just Skydrive getting a rename … ZDNET is reporting a possible renaming of Microsoft Office’s cloud services to ‘Office Online’. In this scenario Office Web Apps would become Office Online comprising Word Online, Excel Online, PowerPoint Online, OneNoteOnline and Office Online templates. This makes sense because the word ‘apps’ has become linked to […]
Microsoft’s online storage service gets a court mandated name change. Last year, Microsoft lost a court case over the name ‘SkyDrive’ so now it’s being renamed ‘OneDrive‘. SkyDrive will be called OneDrive SkyDrive Pro becomes OneDrive for Business Hopefully the switchover will be seamless for users like those who save Office documents. According to Microsoft […]