Editor’s Note-1/29/2015 
 
 We are excited to announce that all existing Office 365 ProPlus customers have been provisioned with OneDrive for Business as part of their subscription! Each of your users get 1 TB of storage, as we announced we’re moving to unlimited storage for OneDrive for Business – as we roll this out over time, OneDrive for Business users will have unlimited storage applied. For all the roadmap details go here. 
 
 Editor’s Note-11/17/2014 
 
 Customers that add Office 365 ProPlus after December 1, 2014 will automatically get OneDrive for Business provisioned as part of their ProPlus subscription. For existing Office 365 ProPlus customers OneDrive for Business will begin rolling out before the end of this year, and we expect all Office 365 ProPlus customers will have OneDrive for Business before the end of January 2015. Once you get your OneDrive for Business provisioned each of your users will get 1 TB of storage, as we announced we’re moving to unlimited storage for OneDrive for Business – as we roll this out over time, your users will have unlimited storage applied. For all the roadmap details go here.​ 
 
 Editor’s Note-10/31/2014 
 
 Customers that add Office 365 ProPlus after December 1, 2014 will automatically get OneDrive for Business provisioned as part of their ProPlus subscription. We have had some delays with the service rollout for existing Office 365 ProPlus customers – we’re working on a solution and will share more specifics soon. Additionally once you get your OneDrive for Business provisioned each of your users will get 1 TB of storage, as we announced we’re moving to unlimited storage for OneDrive for Business – as we roll this out over time, your users will have unlimited storage applied to their OneDrives. For all the roadmap details go here. 
 
 Today’s business leaders are looking for ways to unleash their employees’ potential for greater impact, freed from limitations imposed by time and place. That’s one of the reasons that businesses are embracing the cloud to accelerate business performance while providing new, flexible ways for employees to collaborate and securely access data and documents. Of course they’ve been doing this for some time, but often in a piecemeal fashion. One department selects a line of business app, another signs up for some compute cycles, and a third adds some productivity tools. But the era of making isolated, single-solution decisions is rapidly coming to a close. Smart businesses are now choosing partners that have a holistic, comprehensive and connected set of cloud offerings and in doing so, creating a “data culture” in their organization. 
 
 File sync and share solutions represent key capabilities that keep people on the same page and responsive. There are several solutions offered, many from companies that have sprung up to focus exclusively on this market. Some have come from the consumer world and are new to the enterprise software market and the requirements around delivering enterprise-grade cloud services. Others are focused on the enterprise, but only as a point solution. Few are prepared to meet the evolving needs of businesses looking for a holistic and comprehensive approach to meeting the full needs of their employees as they live a cloud first, mobile first workstyle. 
 
 We believe Microsoft offers the most complete solution for businesses looking to maximize their employees’ ability to create, collaborate, analyze and act – and sharing, storing and syncing are foundational to that. 
 
 OneDrive for Business has been part of Office 365 for some time, but earlier this month we announced a new standalone offer for OneDrive for Business, making it even easier for our business customers to get the file sync and share service that’s designed to meet the anywhere access, storage, scale, data security and compliance requirements organizations need. OneDrive for Business is unique because it offers the flexibility of a reliable and secure standalone service, but is also a tightly integrated Office 365 service, offering enterprise-class productivity. 
 
 Today we’re announcing the following: 
 
 First , we will be increasing OneDrive for Business storage from 25GB to 1TB per user. 
 
 , we will be increasing OneDrive for Business storage from 25GB to 1TB per user. Second , all Office 365 ProPlus customers will get 1TB of OneDrive for Business storage per user as part of their Office 365 ProPlus subscription. 
 
 , all Office 365 ProPlus customers will get 1TB of OneDrive for Business storage per user as part of their Office 365 ProPlus subscription. Third, we’ll help organizations migrate data from their existing solutions to OneDrive for Business 
 
 If you don’t currently subscribe to OneDrive for Business or have it as part of your Office 365 subscription you can take advantage of attractive promotional pricing to get started, at a fraction of the cost of alternatives. We have a robust roadmap which we discussed at SharePoint Conference last month. In addition, our roadmap includes the powerful search and discovery solution, codenamed Oslo and the Office Graph, new document conversations powered by Yammer, and more that will enable people to engage with their OneDrive for Business content in new and interesting ways. 
 
 As important as robust file sync/share is, we believe it’s only useful if it’s part of a holistic and comprehensive solution for team-based productivity and collaboration. That’s why we believe organizations should expect more from their solutions. Here are 5 ways we deliver on that: 
 
 Native integration with Office documents: Enables people to discover content and collaborate with others in real time with efficient synchronization of changes and real-time co-authoring using Office Online. Connected to what you need, when you need it: As cloud services like Office 365 get smarter and more personalized with Office Graph, OneDrive for Business becomes part of a connected productivity solution where content is discoverable, sharable and personalized for individual users, helping to increase personal and organizational responsiveness. A trusted service: OneDrive for Business provides enterprise content management, compliance and admin controls, financially backed by the industry-leading Office 365 Service Level Agreement. We’ve made investments in manageability, security, auditing and information protection including rights management, data loss prevention, auditing, eDiscovery, legal holds, etc. and more that can work for OneDrive for business but also across SharePoint and Exchange. Deep investment in certifications and infrastructure: We’ve invested heavily already in areas that are important for doing business in major vertical industries and geographies, such as FISMA, the EU Model Clauses, CJIS and more, many of which are detailed on our Trust Center. Microsoft has industry-leading, cloud reliability and security and has made a massive investment in physical datacenters around the world, enabling us to deliver high availability and robust disaster recovery capabilities. Scale through partners: Our 400,000 partners around the world can help customers get up and running quickly with OneDrive for Business as a standalone solution or with Office 365. 
 
 Microsoft is committed to delivering the very best file sync and share solution as part of our commitment to creating the world’s most compelling cloud-first, mobile-first productivity experiences on the planet – beloved by end users and IT professionals, and delivered by hundreds of thousands of partners around the world. 
 
 We’re excited about recent new features, partnerships, customer wins and customer events that have inspired many great conversations with you about ever-growing interest in the future of productivity and momentum for Office 365 which is now on a $2.5 billion annual run rate. We’ve shipped nearly a hundred updates over the past 12 months including Office for iPad, new OneNote for Mac and iPad, Power BI and Office Online; Office 365 operated by 21 Vianet has launched in China, and we shared our vision for the new ways people will work together leveraging personalization, enterprise search and machine learning, with Office Graph and Oslo. We’ve added new partners like GoDaddy and Docusign, and announced several new Office 365 customers across industries and the public sector. There’s much more to come! 
 
 The cloud is about breaking down walls between people and information. Not building a new set of islands in the sky. Make sure you bet on a file sync and share solution that helps you embrace that. For more information visit OneDrive for Business. 
 
 —John Case ||||| In the cloud storage wars, capacity is a weapon, and one that is rapidly losing its dollar value. Put simply: Companies that offer cloud storage are scrambling to add value on top of stored gigabytes, as the marginal dollar price that can be charged for that storage is rapidly dropping to zero. 
 
 Microsoft, making that point even more explicit today announced that it is bolstering its provided OneDrive for Business and Office 365 ProPlus products to one terabyte, up from 25 gigabytes in the case of the former. 
 
 In its blog post, Microsoft all but called out by name both Dropbox and Box as insufficient competition for its cloud products: 
 
 File sync and share solutions represent key capabilities that keep people on the same page and responsive. There are several solutions offered, many from companies that have sprung up to focus exclusively on this market. Some have come from the consumer world and are new to the enterprise software market and the requirements around delivering enterprise-grade cloud services. Others are focused on the enterprise, but only as a point solution. Few are prepared to meet the evolving needs of businesses looking for a holistic and comprehensive approach to meeting the full needs of their employees as they live a cloud first, mobile first workstyle. 
 
 Consider the shade tossed. Dropbox especially is working at the moment to grow inside the corporate space. Microsoft doesn’t want that to happen. (To its credit, Dropbox’s most recent crop of products are in fact beautifully designed. It will be interesting to see what sort of play they can receive in the enterprise. There are doubters out there.) 
 
 The financial dynamics at play here are incredibly interesting. As I wrote when discussing the Box S-1: 
 
 The [financial] pressure here is amplified by a host of competition, and declining per-gigabyte fees. This cuts at what Box can charge for a key part of its value proposition, as larger, better monied players like Google and Microsoft beat each about the ears. The dance that Google and Microsoft are playing is different from what Box offers, but here’s the new reality: Cloud storage without editing and collaboration tools is moot, as are editing and collaboration tools without cloud storage. 
 
 Microsoft just cut the fee for the proximal stored gigabyte to a titch over zero. So, storage itself can no longer be a differentiator. That’s tough for companies like Dropbox and Box that have long charged for storage. 
 
 Google and Yahoo have also helped lower the cost of storage. Yahoo offers a terabyte of storage on Flickr, and Google recently axed its prices for cloud storage to boot. 
 
 Dropbox and Box must move up the value stack, and are, to their credit, working hard to do so. But Microsoft doesn’t want to cede the space, as doing so would directly impugn its future Office cash flow. And that’s not something it wants to divest. ||||| Microsoft is talking tough about corporate-software upstarts Box and Dropbox. Reuters 
 
 Look out, Box and Dropbox. Microsoft is coming after you. 
 
 Microsoft Monday announced a 40-fold increase in the online-file storage available for business versions of Office 365 and OneDrive, the company’s workplace document software and storage service. 
 
 The announcements, and Microsoft’s blog post on the topic, seem to be a declaration of war on Box and Dropbox, high-flying startups vying with Microsoft and others offering workplace tools like document sharing inside a company. 
 
 Microsoft didn’t call out Box or Dropbox by name in the text of the post. But its headline, “Thinking outside the box,” seemed a not-so-subtle jab at the new kids on the block. 
 
 Box Chief Executive Aaron Levie fired back in a blog post Monday night, criticizing Microsoft for keeping its storage software “closed” and making it difficult for users to move their data between different services. “Microsoft is stranding hundreds of millions of users and customers that have chosen Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and others,” Levie wrote. 
 
 A spokesman for Dropbox declined to comment. 
 
 In the post, Microsoft argues that companies are better off buying an all-in-one product (from Microsoft of course) rather than stitching together technology pieces from multiple companies– Box for file storage, for example, plus Google Apps for document creation. 
 
 “The era of making isolated, single-solution decisions is rapidly coming to a close,” John Case, a corporate vice president for Microsoft Office, said in the post. 
 
 That one-stop-shop view runs counter to arguments of younger companies, such as Box or human-resources software firm Workday, which say corporations are better off with specialist software from firms focused on doing one thing. 
 
 This split in approaches to corporate technology is one of the fundamental philosophical battles as young and established companies fight over the $2 trillion companies spend each year on technology. 
 
 Box, and more recently Dropbox, have been adding offerings to stay ahead of deep-pocketed rivals like Microsoft. To differentiate itself, Box is pitching itself as a kind of hub for different types of business software, such as Salesforce.com 's programs for salespeople, and NetSuite ’s financial software. 
 
 Dropbox, which initially focused on consumers, has begun targeting corporate customers with additional security features and tools for sharing documents. 
 
 –Doug MacMillan contributed to this post. 
 
 - This post has been updated to include Levie’s response. 
 
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 Office 365 Home Premium, which includes such familiar programs as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Access, will be offered with a yearly subscription fee. Instead of buying Office flat-out as you did in the past, you will pay a $99.99 annual charge, which buys you automatic software updates, 20GB of extra storage on SkyDrive (Microsoft's Cloud storage service), 60 Skype world minutes and use of all the Office programs on up to five computers or tablets. 
 
 The Office 365 University edition will cost $79.99 for four years; it can only be used on two machines and you can only renew at that price one time. Office will still be available for $219.99 for those who just want to download it once. However, the whole point of the new subscription model is that the software is constantly being updated, just like a website or app. 
 
 Your Settings Stay with You 
 
 While the service has new features and ways of navigating -- for instance, the ribbon at the top of the screen with formatting tools has been hidden and there's a new touch screen setting -- one of the biggest changes comes with how Office works across your devices. To reflect just how much Office has changed in the 25 years since it was first introduced, Microsoft's Jevon Fark didn't compare the new version to another word processing program, but instead likened it to Spotify, one of the hottest new music apps. Yes, a long way from WordPerfect. 
 
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 "Think of this as a Spotified version of Office. With Spotify, you are able to log in. With Spotify, you see all your artists or playlists. Office is going to have those sorts of capabilities and more, but with your files and documents and settings," Fark said. 
 
 When you log in to Office, you are able to save and sync your files to SkyDrive, Microsoft's virtual hard drive in the cloud, but also save your settings. For instance, if you write in a particular font, that font will be the default on any other machine you log on to that has the new version of Office. 
 
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 Microsoft will still provide its Office web apps for free. Much like Google's Docs or Drive, you can use the web apps to write and edit your documents with others in the web browser. The Office programs, however, offer many more features. 
 
 Windows 8 and 7, No iPad or Windows XP 
 
 Microsoft offers versions of Office 365 for Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Phone. While you can use the browser-based version on the iPad, Microsoft does not have a standalone version for the iPad. According to Fark, Microsoft will release the next version of Office for Mac this year. However, when asked about Office for iPad he said, "Microsoft does not have anything to announce on the iPad." 
 
 The software also includes a number of new productivity features, including the ability to edit PDFs in Word; Excel tweaks, which allow you to make charts even faster; and an enhanced presenter mode in PowerPoint. "This is easily the most ambitious version we have released in the 25 years of Office," Fark told ABC News. 
 
 The new software is certainly a break with the past for Microsoft. The new Office 365 will only work with Windows 7 and Windows 8; it will not work with Windows XP. The new version will be available for download today from Office.com.
– It's a new kind of Storage Wars. With services like Dropbox seeking business users, Microsoft is raising the stakes. To that end, the company today announced that users of OneDrive for Business, a Microsoft storage offering, will now get 1TB of space each—up from 25GB. Users of Office 365 ProPlus will also be treated to 1TB, the company says, per TechCrunch. While Microsoft's blog post didn't explicitly mention Dropbox or Box, its target was pretty clear, the Wall Street Journal notes: The post was titled "thinking outside the box." Few competitors, it says, "are prepared to meet the evolving needs of businesses looking for a holistic and comprehensive approach" to the cloud. The CEO of Box, in reply, called Microsoft's solutions too "closed": "By keeping Office 365 users on the closed OneDrive 'island,' Microsoft is stranding hundreds of millions of users and customers that have chosen Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and others."