Box, the file sharing service is now Bigger, Better with new features

Updated on September 1, 2017

Box is an online file sharing and Cloud content management service for enterprise companies. The company provides 10GB of free storage for personal accounts. Boxworks has now introduced new social networking and other technical features!

“Our vision is to make it incredibly easy for our customers – 140,000 businesses and 14 million users – to share access and manage content from anywhere. We’ve created a brand new experience on Box that makes it easier than ever to discover, connect to and engage with the collaborators and content you care about.” says Aaron Levie, CEO of the Box.

Box - with new features
Box - with new features

The new features include: enhanced look and feel, editing of documents inside the box environment, connecting better and sharing documents, easy collaboration around content and Box Embed.

Using these features, now, you can quickly find other people to collaborate with at your company and start working with them. Just click on a name in the right sidebar to start sharing and collaborating! Even better, you can use Box Edit to create new Word, Excel or PowerPoint files without leaving Box, and the  enhanced lock/unlock functionality lets you lock a document you are editing so no one else can make conflicting changes.

Also, it now lets you to like a document just like other social networking sites!  This move is definitely a shift for Box.

New Box Embed
New Box Embed

Box Embed is a HTML5-based framework to embed the entire Box experience anywhere people work. Check the embed code for specific file –  and get instant access to all the Box features you love, like uploads, search, comments, share, tag co-workers and so on!  It gives a protected share link so you can add or restrict collaborators on your content directly within Box Embed.

Why wait now?! Explore all new features of the Box!

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