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• Using Office apps with non-Microsoft cloud services

  Posted on April 7, 2025 at 02:45 CDT by Peter Deegan • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 22.14 • 2025-04-07

  MICROSOFT 365

  

  By Peter Deegan

  OneDrive and SharePoint aren’t the only cloud storage options available. There are others that will work inside modern Office apps, some with far superior security and privacy capabilities.

  Anyone who has read my past articles will know that I’m no convert to Microsoft’s “everything in the cloud” zeal. Cloud storage has uses for some documents and situations but not necessarily for everything, despite Microsoft insistence.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (22.14.0, 2025-04-07).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Microsoft 365 Box, Dropbox, Newsletters, Office, OneDrive, ProtonDrive, SharePoint

• An audio problem in Win10, a forgotten app, and a Dropbox update

  Posted on October 4, 2020 at 21:00 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  SHORTS

  By TB Capen

  Controlling audio in Windows has always been one of those things that should be really simple — but aren’t.

  Recently, I ran into another audio problem that really had me flummoxed. When I was watching a Netflix movie on my PC, inside a Firefox tab, audio came through just fine on my USB headphones. But if I unplugged them, there was no audio from the speakers attached to the machine’s audio-out port.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.39.0 (2020-10-05).

  AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Windows 10 AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Audio controls, Benchmarks, Dropbox, Password managers, Windows Experience Index

• Family plans: Good and not-so-good deals

  Posted on July 27, 2020 at 01:00 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  SHORTS

  By TB Capen

  As our tribes spend more time together, some tech vendors are offering better prices for shared products.

  Dropbox: Dipping from the same pot.

  Spotify for two, please.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.29.0 (2020-07-27).

  AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Cloud Services, Cloud Storage AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Dropbox, Shared accounts, Spotify

• Finding your photos in the cloud

  Posted on June 10, 2019 at 02:01 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  Have you ever wanted to bring up a particular photo or two (or eight) on your smartphone?

  Maybe you want to revisit your last vacation or your child’s wedding. Or perhaps you want to show off photos of your grandchildren — but not too many … you don’t want to annoy people. Here’s how to find images in OneDrive, Google Photos, and Dropbox.

  See the full story in the June 10, 2019, AskWoody Plus Newsletter (Issue 16.21.0)

  Digital Entertainment Dropbox, Google Photos, images, OneDrive, storage

• Dropbox changes the behavior of public folders

  Posted on March 14, 2017 at 07:10 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  From @Kirsty

  Starting tomorrow

  For Basic/Free users, your current public folder will become a normal secure folder. This means any current links to items in your public folder before the change over this week will no longer work. New shared links will need to be created, to enable sharing to continue.

  Details in AKB 3000004

  Other Dropbox, public folders

• Nadella gives away the store with new ‘Microsoft everywhere’ strategy

  Posted on November 7, 2014 at 09:33 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  It’s a whole new strategy: Give away the blades, sell the razor.

  And it just might work.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch

  Windows News Dropbox, iPad, iPhone, Metro Office, Office, OneDrive

• Dropbox doubles down on storage

  Posted on July 12, 2012 at 00:04 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  But they’re still twice as expensive as the competition.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Other Dropbox

• Cloud storage booming, trouble brewing

  Posted on April 26, 2012 at 23:00 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I don’t think people realize that the data they put in the new cloud “drive” storage services can be viewed by employees.

  I also wonder, out loud, what’s the difference between Megaupload and the cloud drives.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Don’t be afraid to comment!

  Windows News Box, Cloud Drive, Cloud storage, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, Megaupload, SkyDrive, SpiderOak, SugarSync
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