Tuesday, November 4, 2014; 3:10:11 PM Eastern
Dropbox+Microsoft tweetstorm
- Basically: :thumbsup:
- I did a tweetstorm, by hand, this afternoon about this. Sorry I don't have time to make it a full blog post. I'm just going to copy/paste the contents of the tweets.
- 1. This Dropbox+Office thing is the kind of thing Microsoft used to do very well. So what if we don't own the platform. We can get users.
- 2. A lot of other companies wouldn't do it, and the Microsoft of the last decade was one of them.
- 3. Google could have cut them off with their Docs product. They left an opening for Microsoft, and good for them for seeing it and jumping in.
- 4. And for Dropbox, in an instant they have matched and passed Google, and neutralized their threat. Google left the door open for them too.
- 5. My guess, this is Billg's idea. Straight out of his playbook. ;-)
- 6. Other products like this Microsoft did: The CP/M card. All their Mac products. And their mouse worked with all WP's not just Word.
- 7. So the next thing for Microsoft to do: Take Flickr's business. 1. Clone the API, including feeds. 2. Court developers.
- 8. You want to win the hearts of developers? Pour resources into moribund markets and get them going again.
- 9. Speaking of moribund markets. Ahem. http://twitter.com/