ChromeOS and Microsoft 365 Will Start Playing Nicer With Each Other This Year (arstechnica.com) 13
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google and Microsoft don't always take pains to make sure their products work great together -- Google originally declared Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge browser "not supported" by the Google Drive web apps; Microsoft is always trying to make you use Bing -- but it looks like Google's ChromeOS will start working a bit better with the Microsoft 365 service later this year. Google says ChromeOS will add a "new integration" for Microsoft 365, making it easier to install the app and adding built-in support for OneDrive in ChromeOS' native Files app.
This should allow users to search for and access OneDrive files the same way they get to local files, or files stored in their Google Drive account. The integration will be added in "the coming months," and users in ChromeOS' dev and beta channels will be able to access it before it rolls out to all ChromeOS users later this year. ChromeOS users can currently access OneDrive and other Microsoft 365 services through their web interfaces or Android apps installed via the Google Play Store, but they don't integrate with the built-in ChromeOS Files app the way that Google Drive does. This integration will help close that gap for people who, for example, use Google products at home but Microsoft products at work or vice versa.
This should allow users to search for and access OneDrive files the same way they get to local files, or files stored in their Google Drive account. The integration will be added in "the coming months," and users in ChromeOS' dev and beta channels will be able to access it before it rolls out to all ChromeOS users later this year. ChromeOS users can currently access OneDrive and other Microsoft 365 services through their web interfaces or Android apps installed via the Google Play Store, but they don't integrate with the built-in ChromeOS Files app the way that Google Drive does. This integration will help close that gap for people who, for example, use Google products at home but Microsoft products at work or vice versa.
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Someone is working with MIKKKROSOFT?? They are bad and dumb and wrong and this is obviously EEE!!!!.
OMG...the world is about to end !
Dogs will start living with cats. Souffles will never fall in the oven. Shrimp will always be perfectly cooked. Steaks will never be overdone.
The Horror ! THE HORROR !
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google wants there file system to be set up in a way that makes it easy for them to scan and market your data.
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On a normal computer, if I want to save to an SD card, I don't need SanDisc or Samsung to make a special integration allowing me to do that.
If Google, Microsoft, et al, want to do the "cloud file system" thing and make it a thing, they need to actually work on some standards. Making an agreement to work with one another's file systems, but not set a standard so any third party can create one, isn't opening up their systems, it's the opposite.
But why, and how?
Dropbox, Box.com, Mega, PCloud, ProtonDrive, and Sugarsync would have to get on board too, right? Conversely, there's stuff like CloudMounter that will present pretty much any cloud storage as generic network storage to Windows and OSX if one doesn't want to just have a dozen different sync services. Hell, even iOS has a means for various cloud storage providers able to show up in the file browser more-or-less natively.
This tiff really only affects ChromeOS, and that's unsurprising. Chromeb
Not a lot of confidence in their own products (Score:2)
It seems weird that they would be increasing integration when they have competing products like Google Drive and their own office suite.
I guess that there is still a big demand for Office 365 that they feel like people are holding off from using ChromeOS if it means they can't use the other tools they need.
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Microsoft has an API for One Drive. Anybody can use it. Google is just choosing to implement code to access the API. they could have done that ages ago.
Re: Not a lot of confidence in their own products (Score:2)
I don't think those products really compete head-to-head. Google is the go-to for collaboration, while Office is the go-to for B2B. Office obviously has pretty much all the features of Google Drive and then some. But those features are mostly irrelevant to collaboration and they come with licensing problems that most teams don't want to deal with if they don't have to.
On Linux Would Be Nice (Score:1)
But I expect the Linux anti-make-a-living-from-your-software-is-bad license prevents it. Year of the Linux desktop, rah rah. No Open Office and Libre Office are not just as good, that is just fanboi fanatic talk. And especially when you need interoperability with the other 99% of the business world.
Re: On Linux Would Be Nice (Score:3)
Linux license has zero impact on what software runs there.
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No Office for Linux for a few good reasons if you're Microsoft.
1. Office on Linux means you may not need to buy any "Windows" or bundled licenses at all
2. No Windows desktop OS then why bother with Active Directory to log into your computers (many other LDAP/directory services are viable)
3. No need to use SCCM or InTune for "guaranteed" management compatibility
4. No Active Directory means no AD servers or no Azure AD to buy
5. Outlook will also connect to non Exchange email services/servers
The finance guys a
Ask WordPerfect About That (Score:1)
WordPerfect owners made some mistakes, but Microsoft certainly didn't help either. Now the shoe is kind of on the other foot.
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My guess is that the Chromebook price point is too attractive for consumers and has gained enough market share (especially public schools in the USA) that Microsoft has to find a way to make their M/Office 365 web based suite more attractive to use, so the MS licensing the school purchases so staff can use Windows desktops for Outlook/Exchange and Exc