In computer years, it seems like Dropbox has been around forever -- that is, until you realize that it has only just this week finally landed at version 1.0, a pretty big milestone for the cloud storage service that has brought the Mac and Windows together with mobile devices at long last.

The Dropbox Blog has announced that the desktop Dropbox application has finally hit version 1.0, complete with hundreds of bug fixes and “vastly reduced resource usage,” not to mention show-stopping features like extended attributes, selective sync and “a shiny new installation wizard.”

“1.0 is a milestone for us, and with it we want to communicate our confidence that Dropbox is stable, high-quality software,” announced Jon Ying on the company’s blog on Thursday. “The service has grown from a simple sync app to something that’s changed the way lots of people work and communicate. But just because this version of Dropbox has a new number doesn’t mean that we’re anywhere close to finished. We have a long way to go before we realize our goal of making it easy for everyone to always have access to their stuff. Stay tuned for more!”

In the meantime, we have Dropbox 1.0 to be thankful for this holiday season, which the company promises is their “highest quality” release yet, reducing memory consumption by up to 50 percent while being “speedier and more efficient when handling big changes to your Dropbox while ensuing that smaller changes remain quick.” All users get a better user experience with a completely redesigned initial setup wizard, and the Mac version has been rewritten in only Cocoa, bringing down the app’s download size by 20 percent.

Many users will be most interested in a pair of new features to 1.0. Selective sync gives you the ability to choose which folders get downloaded to which computers, while extended attribute syncing resolves those pesky issues with Mac resource forks to avoid file corruption when storing files on Dropbox.

If you haven’t used Dropbox before, now is a great time to get introduced to the service, especially since it’s absolutely free for the first 2GB of storage. You can download Dropbox for your computer right here.

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