Eikon links to Excel with one click and will soon be fully integrated with the Microsoft Office suite so users can pull data and charts from the system into Word or PowerPoint.
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Microsoft Office suite is positioned well to outperform.
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Microsoft Corporation , one of the biggest software companies in the world, makes money primarily via sales of its Microsoft Office productivity suite and Windows operating system.
Raikes built the business by tying new products such as Microsoft SharePoint to hits, such as Microsoft's Office suite of productivity applications, says Rob Helm, director of research at Directions on Microsoft.
Even those using Macs will be hard pressed to justify the additional cost if they already have the OS X version of Microsoft's Office Suite on their machines, which is far superior to the Wintel version.
Although they do offer a traditional desktop mode, the only programs that can be run under it are Microsoft's Office 2013 suite and a limited number of the firm's other products.
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Gartner - a tech consultancy - said the fact Windows RT offered Microsoft's Office software suite, would act in its favour, but might not be enough to compensate for other "missing" software.
That package includes online e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets and document sharing, much like Microsoft's cash cow Office suite.
Microsoft announcing its gratis forthcoming Office suite online reminds us how lucky we are to again have such competition.
The company has integrated the product with Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, data from Outlook and Exchange, GPS and others.
Tweaking Microsoft, Schmidt has moved to snap up online companies that can offer desktop-style applications for free, posing at least a token threat to Microsoft's money-spewing Office suite.
The office suite includes Exchange, Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Lync Server, among other web-based productivity tools.
As for office management software, Microsoft Office Small Business--with its suite of tools such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook--is still the standard.
The Finnish firm is making its announcement on the same day that Stephen Elop, a former executive at Microsoft who oversaw the distribution of its famous Office suite, starts at Nokia as chief executive officer.
Gates also revealed the addition of new applications to Microsoft Office, the company's dominant productivity software suite.
Microsoft helped fix that by producing versions of its Office suite that create documents that can move easily from one platform to the other.
Google has shown no interest in leasing out its vast infrastructure, but it is challenging Microsoft with a suite of online applications akin to Office.
Microsoft's other software, including its Office 97 suite, does not even make the top-20 list, outsold by the likes of racing games, Tomb Raider's pneumatic Lara Croft, and the perennial best-seller, Myst.
And then Microsoft entered the market with Windows and its original Office product suite.
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Microsoft apparently really wants students to use Office 365 and its accompanying suite of products, including SkyDrive.
Microsoft today is also launching updated versions of its more traditional Office suite, including Office Home and Student 2013, Office Home and Business 2013 and Office Professional 2013.
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Susan Grabau, Sun's StarOffice product line manager, said that these high-profile partnerships should extend the company's reach so it can better compete with bitter rival Microsoft, whose Office product is the most widely used desktop applications suite.
For those that have deployed or are planning to deploy a cloud-based productivity suite, Google Apps (48%) and Microsoft Office 365 (43%) are the clear favorites.
Microsoft itself has launched Office 365, a cloud version of the Office suite, as well as hosted services like Exchange Online, Sharepoint Online and Lync Online.
In addition to retail sales to individual consumers, Google is trying to sell Chromebooks to the millions of student, corporate and government customers that use Google Apps, the company's suite of Web software that competes with Microsoft's Office.
Freshly launched editions of Microsoft's mainstays--the Windows operating system and Office desktop productivity suite--helped the Redmond, Wash.
Microsoft derives about 75% of its stock value from Windows operating system and Office suite of products, according to our estimates.
Most users at work, including Mac users, get PowerPoint already sitting on their computers as part of Microsoft's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Office Suite.
Based on the company's "help wanted" ads, Google seemed to be working on a set of programs that would compete with Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Office suite.
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