Name: aaronlewis
Uploaded: 2014-07-15
Duration: 2 min 14 s
Description: aaronlewis

You guys made two announcements this morning. One was integration with Microsoft 365, one was that you were uncapping storage limits for your business customers. Let's start with Microsoft first. You historically have said some not the most positive things about Microsoft as a company, you have. You've, youv'e talked a little about how you've got Apple devices and use Apple software and more and so do most of your customers so why team with a company. That you seem to at least tink is on the decline. No it's true I think that the the if you look at our strategy it's actually been very consistent with And commencerate with where the market has been. So if you look at the Microsoft in the two thousands. They're very much a closed off ecosystem. They didn't really have an open platform approach. They were more known for, you know, kind of the strategy of the 90s that, that kept going through the 2000s which was own everything, control everything, and, make sure to shut off the competition. And so, we built our product in for a very different kind of world, a mobile cloud heterogeneous kind of world. And that meant, you know, by definition that you're going to go up against Microsoft and try and tell a very different kind of story. But now we're seeing a different Microsoft and customers are seeing a different Microsoft. You're seeing a much more open. You're seeing a Microsoft that is clearly multi- platform. Becoming very platform agnostic. And that requires a different approach from us as well. Are you personally starting to use Microsoft products either hardware or software? So I actually have, I've been on Windows 7 for many years now. That's my, that is my my PC at work, and I use a Mac Air and I have an iPhone. Let's talk about this other thing. You uncapped for business users. Already large enterprise users you had already uncapped storage for. You haven't done, I'm just curious, obviously you're an enterprise focused company. If I'm just an individual user of Voxo, am I uncapped? You're not uncapped, unless you want to pay us Will I be, is that, cuz you said today in your blog post, announcement said, end of the storage wars. Suggesting this is where it was going for everybody. So is that just a matter of time? Well it's a matter of time for probably other players. But because we're more focused on the enterprise, what we announced today was that businesses now had no limits on the amount of storage that they could put in the cloud with, with Box. On the consumer side I think that you would more expect to see that from, Apple, from Google, from Microsoft, from some of the other players as opposed to us directly.