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Started by : Mahalakshmi Subramanium, QA/QC Manager, Genpact   06 18 2010 11:12:05 +0000
Industry : IT ProductsFunctional Area : Application Software(Technology)
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Microsoft Corp, the software giant has confirmed that Office 2010 suite will be released in the first half of 2010 (in May for businesses and June for masses).

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Lately Microsoft is facing a lot of competition from companies like companies like Google, Oracle, IBM etc softwares like Office 2010 is losing its popularity. The suite is a key product for the software giant and will contribute heavily to its sales and revenues. But, it seems that the new Office suite will face competition from various other vendors like Google, IBM, etc.

So users, why do you think Microsoft Office 2010 is losing its sheen?

 
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1 Increasing competition from other vendors
2 Don't think so... Its associated with the OS Race
3 Office 2010 and Web Apps will definitely outperform others

Increasing competition from other vendors

idea posted by Mahalakshmi Subramanium QA/QC Manager, Genpact

At present, the Office market is dominated by Microsoft, but Google is taking the market share away from the software giant. Further, various other suites like IBM’s Lotus Symphony, Apple’s iWork. OpenOffice and Zoho (a Web-based productivity suite) are available in the market, which provides various new features to its users. IBM's LotusLive iNotes are available @ $ 36 per user per year. Further, the company also offers $2 per user per month plan, which is available to existing IBM Lotus clients.

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by Swarnavo Roy, Architect OCS Infotech  | 08 25 2010 08:42:31 +0000

Microsoft knows the market best, they are almost monopolised the OS market for PC, which gives them the key to sell Office Suite, I have recently bought a laptop and I was determined not to buy another Office 2010 license, so I have started off with Open Office, and I am enjoying it. All Office files can be opened and edited on O-Office, they render Office files accurately. I am not going the MS Office way any more.

It is now up to Oracle now owning Open Office to market their product, which will be a decider on whether this will really give MS Office a run for its money. We IT professionals only know about this Open Office Lotus SmartSuite etc, non IT ppl. have not hard anything other than MS Office, this gap needs to be bridged to really harden the competition.

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Absolutely it is correct Ms.Mahalaxmi.

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yes it is right

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Don't think so... Its associated with the OS Race

idea posted by Shabab Khan Project Director, Interactive Avenues

I don't think its Office Productivity Suite per say! Its the race between the OS. I am in India and am yet to find anyone non-msoffice tool being used on Mac, except entourage maybe, people still prefer MS-Office on Mac. On Unix flavours, yes, but thats because MS-Office hasn't provided a solution. If they do, I am sure, even that will be adopted very well!

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I don't think Google or any other company can surpass the dominance of MS products just yet. From a productivity standpoint its too much of a gamble for companies to trust/use open source products. While products like google documents/open office is evolving quickly, they are still in nascent stages to really compete with MS Office as an equal. There is a whole lot of customization with the new MS Office products and also the fact that documents created on MS Office platform are not truly backward compatible on other products like Google or Open office

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Office 2010 and Web Apps will definitely outperform others

idea posted by Surendhar Network Admin/System Admin, Tatva Networks

Now Microsoft is equipped with Web apps. This is a very good online office suite comparing Google and Zoho. User Interface much matters for guys today. The Hotmail and Skydrive integration makes every single user to use the Web Apps. If they find it good, they'll definitely migrate from Google and Zoho.

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