Because of this, we are seeing a major disruption in the field of office productivity software.
Over the past 10-15 years, we saw what could be considered a monopoly around office productivity software.
Chief among them is Microsoft Office, the ubiquitous office productivity software that predominates on both the Windows and Mac platforms.
The traditional fix for Microsoft, of course, has been to use its ubiquity on the desktop to open up other markets, from Web browsers to office productivity software.
The MS Office suite entails productivity software applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access.
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Gates also revealed the addition of new applications to Microsoft Office, the company's dominant productivity software suite.
Microsoft recently launched Office 365, a web-based productivity software product, to mark an entry into the fast-growing cloud-computing space.
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Microsoft Office is the dominant player in the productivity software market with an estimated share of around 95% as of 2009.
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Moreover, while Microsoft's Vista operating system has received mediocre reviews, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant offers a host of tools, from e-mail software to its ubiquitous Office productivity suite, that will make it impossible to break Windows' lock on big businesses anytime soon.
We also moved our critical applications (office productivity) away from Microsoft to OpenOffice, the free software developed by Sun and thankfully still supported by Oracle.
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By passing on its savings to customers, it aims to capture a dominant market share even in the cloud Office market, just like it does in the desktop productivity software market.
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Microsoft would kill Google if it stopped calling itself a software company and started behaving like a true office productivity company.
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Using sensors and software to control office lighting, reduce energy use and improve worker productivity is gradually gaining acceptance among building owners and attracting interest from investors.
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.
The launch of Office 365 is a major step by Microsoft which would help it retain its overall market share in the productivity software market.
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With the launch of Office 365, it has a very good chance of becoming the dominant player even in the cloud based productivity software market based on initial reviews.
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