January 22, 2016 - 10:12 AMT
Dropbox announces native Windows 10 app

Dropbox teamed up with Microsoft back in 2014, and since then many of the new features the company has introduced have focused around that partnership. Users can now access files stored in Dropbox through Office apps, create Office documents right in the Dropbox iOS app and edit their Office docs right through the Dropbox web interface. Most of these features benefitted users regardless of what platform they used, but Thursday, January 21’s announcement is specifically for Windows users: Dropbox is releasing a native Windows 10 app, Engadget reports.

To be clear, users could already use Dropbox with Windows 10 - the standard utility that keeps a particular folder and its files in sync across all your devices already existed. Dropbox is targeting this new app towards tablet users who might not necessarily keep every single file in their Dropbox synced to their device.

By default, the app gives you a look at everything stored in your Dropbox, regardless of whether or not it's actually stored locally on your Windows 10 device or not. In that way, it's not dissimilar to the Dropbox apps for iOS and Android. What is notable here is how well the Universal Dropbox app integrates with the Windows 10 explorer -- you can drag and drop files from Explorer into this app to save them to your cloud storage.