Microsoft Office adds cloud support for iOS, Box and more

Microsoft is upping its cloud game with two major enhancements to its Office offering. The company has announced two new integration features – file picker integration for iPad and iPhone; and Office Online integration for viewing and editing. Now, third-party cloud storage providers can natively integrate into the “Locations” picker in the iOS Office apps. This will enable users to open, edit and save documents from these providers right from within Office. “While we’re announcing availability of the iPad and iPhone integration today, we’re hard at work on the same type of integration for the Office universal apps for Windows 10 and the Office for Android apps. So in the future, no matter what device, platform, or storage provider you’re using, your Office documents will only be a tap away,” Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team, said in a blog post. [caption id=“attachment_2105771” align=“alignnone” width=“513”]  Native cloud storage integration in the iOS apps[/caption] In addition, the Office Online integration will allow users to open, view, and edit documents stored in those services in any web browser. Box, Citrix, and Salesforce are already working with Microsoft on this as a part of the company’s new Cloud Storage Partner Program. Microsoft hopes to work with other service providers in the future. In November, Microsoft announced a partnership with Dropbox to make it easy to access, edit and share Dropbox files from the Office apps.