[cwyers]

What would Microsoft want Dropbox for? They don't have any infrastructure Microsoft would want (MS runs Azure, while Dropbox just rents off AWS), Microsoft has OneDrive clients for most of the platforms Dropbox is on... it doesn't seem to me that Dropbox has anything Microsoft can't just add to their own service.

[ryanhunt]

1. Market reach, it's where the customers are. Compare the sheer number of apps that have native Dropbox integration, with those that have OneDrive. While it's far from scientific, nearly everyone I know has a Dropbox account - very few have a OneDrive account.

2. It makes their own OneDrive service seem even more competitive. Why pay for Dropbox when you can buy Office365 for about the same price and get unlimited storage?

[pistle]

They could feasibly even create slopes that could pull dropbox into renting in Azure to achieve specific value-adds with MS integration. Overall, it looks like a plus for consumers with not a specific downside being described by anyone (yet?).

[johansch]

Users and paying customers?

[bluedino]

They could make them switch to Azure like they made Hotmail switch from BSD to NT