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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday January 31 2017, @12:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the taking-on-the-800lb-gorillas dept.

Dropbox's latest tool for businesses, a piece of collaborative editing software called Paper, is launching globally today. Paper has been in the works at Dropbox for quite some time, having first been announced in October of 2015 before entering a public beta phase in August of last year. Dropbox's software is similar to Google's suite of workplace cloud apps. Paper — itself a minimal document editor and writing tool like Google Docs — is the focal point, while all of Dropbox's other services and features now plug into and augment the experience.

Paper is Dropbox's latest attempt to court businesses away from Microsoft and Google, or at the very least to encourage companies to pay for Dropbox services on top of what they already use institutionally. It's part of Dropbox's ongoing shift away from consumer storage and apps and toward enterprise software that is both more lucrative and self-sustaining. The company shut down its Mailbox email app and Carousel photo storage service back in 2015. In place of its consumer focus, Dropbox has been pouring more resources into Paper and other projects that make its mobile apps and website a place to perform work, instead of a barebones destination for files.

The biggest question now is whether Paper is the transformative product Dropbox wants it to be. Because many organizations do already pay for Office 365 or Google's G Suite, Dropbox knows that it must play nice with competitors' products or risk alienating workers who either enjoy using Microsoft Word or Google Sheets or do so out of necessity. To that end, Dropbox Paper isn't focused solely on creation. It will let you import, edit, and collaborate on a number of other file types from Google, Microsoft, and others.

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/30/14435582/dropbox-paper-business-app-launch-date-ios-android-web


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  • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Tuesday January 31 2017, @06:14PM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Tuesday January 31 2017, @06:14PM (#461339)

    I changed my address once it was compromised. The new one has yet to be compromised. Not sure what's happening with the old one as anything coming in on that address is deleted immediately.

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