Microsoft targets Box, Dropbox in online storage push

By | April 29, 2014

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Microsoft is taking aim at online services Box and Dropbox by greatly increasing the data storage it offers with business versions of its Office 365 and OneDrive services. Microsoft (MSFT) on Monday announced that it is increasing data storage for OneDrive for business customers to 1 terabyte per user from 25 gigabytes, a 40-fold increase. The company will also give Office 365 ProPlus customers 1 TB of OneDrive for Business storage per user as part of their Office 365 ProPlus subscription. And Microsoft said it will help organizations move data from other services to OneDrive for Business.  In a blog post, John Case, corporate vice president for Microsoft Office, argued that companies are better off buying a complete cloud computing service from Microsoft than cobbling together technology pieces from multiple companies. It didn’t name Box and Dropbox, but the headline of the article, “Thinking outside the box” seemed to be a Scalper1 News

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