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The best experience by far comes from installing the desktop clients, which both handily sit inside the computer’s file management system like File Explorer or Finder. To open a Word file in Dropbox, you will also need to have bought Microsoft Office, or have subscribed to Office 365. While both do require you to have separate apps installed to open many files - Photoshop, for example - Microsoft does bundle its suite of Office apps into many of its subscriptions, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. This has increased the pressure on Dropbox, which has responded by adding new features and finessing the existing ones.īoth solutions can save a whole range of file types, including documents, images, videos, PDFs, and many less common types.

Because OneDrive is owned by Microsoft - creator of the Windows OS - it has become the default option for many users, both personal and business. There is one key aspect that separates this pair of cloud drives, and that is the company behind them.