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Microsoft Wins Big With Office 365

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Microsoft appears to be making a killing with the cloud-based version of Office-- according to Skyhigh Networks 22.3% of enterprises are currently using at least one Office 365 application, up from 7% in September 2015.

Office 365 Chart

Interestingly, the most popular Office 365 application is OneDrive, the Microsoft rival to the likes of Dropbox and Box. OneDrive is used by 79.1% of enterprises with 100 or more employees, even more so than email service Exchange Online (66.9%).

The service houses a surprising amount of files carrying sensitive data such as passwords, personally identifiable information or health information (specifically 17.1% of files in OneDrive carry such data). Clearly Microsoft is found to be a trusted name for such matters, even if security experts insist such sensitive data should not be put in the cloud.

But why is OneDrive more popular than Dropbox or Box? The reason is simple-- OneDrive is tightly integrated with the rest of the Office 365 offering, and even entry-level Office subscriptions get 1TB of OneDrive storage.

Go 7 Charts That Reveal the Meteoric Rise of Office 365