Microsoft Office is under constant pressure

Google, IBM almost simultaneously jumped into the lucrative market that MS won the monopoly: Office software package. The monopoly of Microsoft Office is seriously threatened by the fierce competition of other 'big guys', making the company also have positive changes.

Google comes on the line with online office software

The most compelling news for office workers is the fact that Google announced its completion and began using the presentation software similar to MS's Power Point on September 19. Along with the above statement, from now the world's No. 1 search firm can bring its complex office applications into a web browser.

Email, address management and appointments are no stranger to users, but the completion of word processing, spreadsheet and presentation programs, the Google Docs office software package has attracted Get great attention from different companies and organizations.

However, many ordinary users still don't know the new online feature in this office software package, because they simply aren't aware of the optimization of that function. This is also the main reason why the office software market has only changed slightly recently.

But that does not bother the two young owners of the company when it applies more online functions so that more people can read a document, document in the same time but different in terms of space. In contrast to traditional office software packages, that is not possible.

IBM accelerates

The 'search giant' office online software is not only readable but also compatible with MS office software data, which can be considered the greatest advantage of the software package. online room.

However, Google's new child has not met some of the expectations of professional customers, especially large corporations, such as the need to connect to data banks.

After providing free open office software package IBM Lotus Symphony, IBM took a step ahead of Google when it announced joining the Openoffice.org community. In the seven years since its founding by Sun Microsystem, the Openoffice project has provided and developed a free office software system. With the announcement of this project, IBM wants to contribute important code that has been developed as an important part of its Lotus Note product.

According to observers, the move to contribute both the strength and strength of IBM has shown the desire to take over the old MS Office king.

Microsoft with positive moves

Unable to sit still, on October 1, MS also released a test version of the online office suite Office Live Workspace. With Live Workspace, computer users can upload Word, Excel and Powerpoint files and can share them with many other colleagues.

This is indeed good news for customers who are reluctant to change, but the official time is put on the market, as the fee for Live Workspace has not been officially announced will be a major disadvantage MS when the new Google and IBM office software packages are completely free.

Although improved with online functionality, it only helps MS Office meet the new common ground of the office software package. If you want to still gain the same advantage as before, MS will have to add its own specialized functions.

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