Social Business strategist, podcaster, blogger, founder of Social Connections and conference speaker
Microsoft announced Teams last week, a direct competitor to Slack, and a new component of Office 365. How does it compare to Slack, and where does this leave Microsoft, IBM and Jive?
Well this changes everything…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzMLA8YIgG0
Stunning design, brilliant innovation (love the ‘drafting table’-enabling hinges and dial), and truly pro-level performance.
This or a 3-year-old Mac Pro? Not difficult to choose is it? Of course, this may all change again tomorrow. We shall see…
We’ve partnered with Microsoft Office to help you do more on your phone or tablet. Now you can edit Office files from the Dropbox app and access your Dropbox directly from the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps for iPhone and iPad.
When you’re inside the Office apps, sign in to your Dropbox account to:
Edit Office files from the Dropbox mobile app and sync changes across devices.
Access Dropbox files from the new Office apps and save new files to Dropbox.
Share Dropbox links from Office when you’ve finished making changes.
This is significant and I think shows the way ahead for a lot of the Social Business mobile apps out there. Being able to access all our documents whilst on the mobile is important, but being able to edit them using native full-fidelity apps and to return the new version for colleagues to see immediately is a real step forward.
I’m seeing an increasing number of users using iPads as their primary device whilst at work and especially whilst travelling – it’s not such edge-cases like Federico Viticci that have switched to tablets full-time. It is functionality such as Microsoft and Dropbox are delivering that will help close the productivity gap between tablets and desktops once and for all.