Microsoft Office is Here to Stay
Is Microsoft’s Office suites here to stay or will Google topple its crowning glory. As if replying to Eric Schmidt’s prediction of the imminent demise of desktop software, Microsoft’s Antoine Leblond downplays the threat in a new Reuters interview:
Leblond, who became co-leader of the Office group in June, said Google was the latest in a long line of challengers to the Office software suite … “The simple argument that ‘this is good enough for 90 percent of what we do’ has fallen on its face over and over and over again,” Leblond told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday. “When it comes to mission critical things and key pieces of how people run their businesses, the threshold is higher.”
[…] Is Microsoft’s Office suites here to stay or will Google topple its crowning glory. As if replying to Eric Schmidt’s prediction of the imminent demise of desktop software, Microsoft’s Antoine Leblond downplays the threat in a new Reuters interview: Leblond, who became co-leader of the Office group in June, said Google was the latest in a […]Read full entry […]
By Software News » Microsoft Office is Here to Stay on December 12th, 2006 at 2:55 pm