Thursday 4 August 2011

Is Microsoft Office still the industry leader in text-editing applications?

By Jack Brisk


Microsoft Office 2010 is the most recent version of Microsoft's suite of productiveness and text-editing applications. It contains a great deal of new features, improvement in user interface and file sharing capacities. The truly huge transformation happened in Microsoft's attitude to the online world. Now Microsof Office suit includes free web services for producing text documents, spreadsheets and presentations. It's an attempt of Microsoft to take it's slice of the market for online word-processing and to slow down the growth of it's most dangerous competitor in this market "Google.

Microsoft Word has been under a large amount of pressure recently from many sides. There are standard competitors such as open-source Open Office which is completely free and is available on all the important platforms, Windows, Mac and even Linux. There is also iWork from Apple which is a suit of productiveness programmes and other software choices to Microsoft Office.

However , Microsoft Office now has to face competittion from a new side, Google introduced it's Google Docs serice that can permit users to make text documents, spreadsheets and presentations absolutely for free. They even give the opportunity for the users to keep the files on Google's servers and have them accessible from everywhere. Google Docs made it super simple to share documents and collaborate on a project with associates who can be placed all around the planet.

Microsoft is reacting to this new competition from Google by creating online versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. This is definitely a step in the right way and can help Microsoft to keep it's users. Nonetheless it must be said that Microsoft does not feel so comfortable in the sphere of web services, as it is really just an old-school standard 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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