By: windsorr

windsorr — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:02:56 +0000

This will all become relevant when the OS has been commotitised to zero…thats not for a few years yet….if facebook come with a wordprocessor…great….as long as everybody strarts using it….Google docs has been around for a while aand hasnt too much of a dent…

By: tatilsever

tatilsever — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 07:01:59 +0000

Of course Office exclusivity would help MS gain more traction for WP8 and Win-RT, but isn’t Office revenue even bigger than Windows already? Does it make sense for MS to leave that much money on the table in the hope of protecting Windows, while leaving openings to competitors in light office apps? Google and Apple are not sitting idle and there are already many third party iOS apps providing better sketching and diagramming capabilities than MS has ever done on WIndows. I guess these are more suitable for touch environments, but nonetheless bricks falling off your wall is never good news… Soon, it will not be all that unthinkable for small companies and students to use non-MS apps and stop caring about compatibility. Can you imagine what would happen if, let’s say, Facebook came up with a collaborative, user friendly word processor on iPads for K-12 students to write school reports without MS Office as a competitor?

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