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September 16, 2013 05:00 pm GMT
Aaron Levie’s Box is a quickly growing, enterprise-facing file storage company that has accreted to itself enough in-house technical prowess to expand its feature footprint to new niches that fit on top of its core product, allowing it to become a vertically integrated digital information behemoth. Or, in simpler verbiage, Box has built a small tool called Box Notes that brings, for the first time, file editing capabilities to its file storage solution. This is at once small news, as it is small surprise, and important for the future, as it is only the first of what I expect to be a long string of upcoming tools that will allow Box to take full advantage of its role as the Holder Of Your Stuff. The argument here is simple: Box stores the files of 180,000 business clients. The editor closer to the file is generally the tool that wins usage. Therefore, Box, having moved files from the desktop to the cloud, has put itself in the position of providing document- and file-editing capabilities to companies large and small. Innocuous in itself, but important as that’s been Microsoft’s domain, I think, since before I was actually born. That same dominion has also been curator of Microsoft’s bottom line for almost as long. Box is nibbling Microsoft’s pond and I doubt that Redmond is happy. Box will happily tell you that it isn’t out to get Office, butplease. I spoke to Levie and Box more generally about the tool, and they expect that a lightweight tool could be “Editor enough” for the average computing user. To quote the group, “most of today’s tools have overshot customer needs to solve [their] problems.” So, Box Notes. The goal, and I paraphrase Box here, is to avoid fitting our work to the tools that we have, and instead fit our tooling to our needs. This is implicit knocking of Word and the rest of the Office suite that has become — through time and agglomeration of new bells, whistles and buttons unknown — a bit bloated. That’s the goal of Box Notes, which is a simple real-time editing tool that combines collaborative typing with the Box file stack. If your company uses Box already, this will eventually (the beta will remain small for now) be an option for you and your colleagues to bang out simple documents. A feature called ‘NoteHead,’ think Facebook’s ChatHead feature
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Box Announces Box Notes, A Lightweight Editing Tool That Is An Opening Salvo Against Microsoft Office
Aaron Levie’s Box is a quickly growing, enterprise-facing file storage company that has accreted to itself enough in-house technical prowess to expand its feature footprint to new niches that fit on top of its core product, allowing it to become a vertically integrated digital information behemoth. Or, in simpler verbiage, Box has built a small tool called Box Notes that brings, for the first time, file editing capabilities to its file storage solution. This is at once small news, as it is small surprise, and important for the future, as it is only the first of what I expect to be a long string of upcoming tools that will allow Box to take full advantage of its role as the Holder Of Your Stuff. The argument here is simple: Box stores the files of 180,000 business clients. The editor closer to the file is generally the tool that wins usage. Therefore, Box, having moved files from the desktop to the cloud, has put itself in the position of providing document- and file-editing capabilities to companies large and small. Innocuous in itself, but important as that’s been Microsoft’s domain, I think, since before I was actually born. That same dominion has also been curator of Microsoft’s bottom line for almost as long. Box is nibbling Microsoft’s pond and I doubt that Redmond is happy. Box will happily tell you that it isn’t out to get Office, butplease. I spoke to Levie and Box more generally about the tool, and they expect that a lightweight tool could be “Editor enough” for the average computing user. To quote the group, “most of today’s tools have overshot customer needs to solve [their] problems.” So, Box Notes. The goal, and I paraphrase Box here, is to avoid fitting our work to the tools that we have, and instead fit our tooling to our needs. This is implicit knocking of Word and the rest of the Office suite that has become — through time and agglomeration of new bells, whistles and buttons unknown — a bit bloated. That’s the goal of Box Notes, which is a simple real-time editing tool that combines collaborative typing with the Box file stack. If your company uses Box already, this will eventually (the beta will remain small for now) be an option for you and your colleagues to bang out simple documents. A feature called ‘NoteHead,’ think Facebook’s ChatHead featureOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/TbTABBmi7mc/
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