Is Microsoft Office still the sector leader in productivity applications?

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By Jack Brisk


Microsoft Office 2010 is the newest version of Microsoft's collection of productiveness and text-editing applications. It contains a lot of new features, improvement in control panel and file sharing capacities. The truly big change occurred in Microsoft's attitude to the online world. Now Microsof Office suit includes free internet services for making text documents, spreadsheets and presentations. It's an attempt of Microsoft to snatch it's share of the market for online word-processing and to slow down the growth of it's biggest competitor in this market "Google.

Microsoft Office has been under a lot of pressure latterly from many sides. There are traditional rivals like open-source Open Office which is totally free and is available on all the main platforms, Windows, Mac and even Linux. There's also iWork from Apple which is a bundle of productivity apps and other software substitutes to Microsoft Office.

But Microsoft Office now has to face competittion from a new side, Google introduced it's Google Docs serice that can enable users to create text documents, spreadsheets and presentations completely absolutely free. They even give the chance for the users to keep the files on Google's servers and have them accessible from everywhere. Google Docs made it super straightforward to share documents and work on a project with co-workers who can be placed all around the globe.

Microsoft is replying to this new competition from Google by making online versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. This is certainly a step in the correct direction and can help Microsoft to keep it's users. But it has to be said that Microsoft doesn't feel so comfy in the sphere of internet services, as it is still just a traditional old software company.

There's a huge number of little improvements and changes in Microsoft Office 2010, but the online Word, Excel and Powerpoint services are the crucial one. This is the battle that may establish the way ahead for Microsoft Excel. The only way how Microsoft Office can sustain it's dominant position in the future is by transforming itself into a web service, instead of installing word-processing software users will in the future likely just go to microsoftoffice.com to create word documents.




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