Microsoft Office Online and Dropbox, who formed a surprising, and very cozy partnership last year that made it possible to edit Dropbox files from Microsoft Office apps, and also access Microsoft Office docs in the Dropbox mobile app, have announced that from now on there will be integration between Dropbox on the web and Office Online.

The collaboration means that while you’re working on documents in Microsoft Office Online you’ll be able to get into your Dropbox files without the need to switch between the two services. By clicking on Dropbox in the web browser you can edit your Word, PowerPoint or Excel files using Office Online.

A seemingly simple addition to the relationship, but one that makes things all that more convenient, as Microsoft says in an Office blog, “So whether you start in Office Online, or from Dropbox, it’s simple to work with Office and Dropbox on the web. All Dropbox and Office Online users have access to this new experience today.”

Obviously the key element to the new collaboration is that you can be on any machine to make edits, while prior to this you would have had to work to work on a computer that had Office software installed.

It’s a good move by Dropbox who are competing with Google Drive, yet have never had a document creating feature, as Google does with Google Docs. Microsoft’s billion plus Office users on the other hand reportedly use Dropbox to save their Office documents, of which, Dropbox says, there are 35 billion in total. Microsoft Office and Dropbox almost seems like a match made in heaven. Make love, not war, might be a suitable phrase that for the duo’s relationship.

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