Box adds Windows Phone to the mobile mix

Box is expanding its mobile reach by making its cloud storage and file sharing service available with an app for Windows Phone smartphones

By Tony Bradley, PC World | Consumerization of IT, Box, cloud storage

The early preview of Office 2013 and the new Office 365 still has Microsoft defaulting to SkyDrive for cloud storage. I still maintain that Microsoft should allow other services to integrate so that users can choose to default to SkyDrive, or Box, or Dropbox, or any service that puts in the effort to make the option available.

If you have a Windows Phone smartphone, you can get the new Box app from the Windows Marketplace starting today.

Tony Bradley is Founder and President of S3KUR3, Inc., providing expertise and written content on a variety of technology subjects, ranging from social networking to mobile devices to information security. Tony is the writer behind the PCWorld Net Work blog and print column, author / co-author of a dozen IT books, and frequent contributor of content for PCWorld, and other online media sources. Tony has been a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) for nearly 9 years, and has been awarded the prestigious Microsoft MVP designation for 6 straight years.