Freshly launched editions of Microsoft's mainstays--the Windows operating system and Office desktop productivity suite--helped the Redmond, Wash.
Accessibility from anywhere is the most-often cited reason (by 69%) for moving to a cloud-based productivity suite.
The best example could be the open-source OpenOffice.org productivity suite.
Together they make up a new digital-media productivity suite called iLife.
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.
Unlike the slow growth in the Windows segment, the Office productivity suite maintained its growth during the previous quarter, posting a 7% gain in revenues year-over-year.
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The division has the highest margins for Microsoft at around 60%, which is primarily due to its dominant 95% market share in the productivity suite market.
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.
Applications: Microsoft's productivity suite of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Meanwhile, Google continues to hone its online applications, pushing out a "Team Edition" of its free online productivity suite earlier this month in an effort to capture business users.
Microsoft has identified this sort of software as a key threat to its business, which relies on the healthy margins it earns from Windows and its Office productivity suite.
By contrast, the open-source OpenOffice.org productivity suite is free.
The importance of this foundational aspect of Microsoft's business plan was highlighted this week with the announcement of a new version of Office, the company's productivity suite that is a bedrock of both revenue and profit.
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.
The OS has come in for criticism but praise goes too, for having access to the Microsoft productivity suite, and the extensibility of Windows 8 across mobile and the desktop, though the launch model has a pared down version of the OS, RT, which limits productivity.
Gates also revealed the addition of new applications to Microsoft Office, the company's dominant productivity software suite.
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The MS Office suite entails productivity software applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access.
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Yet other than the firm's Office suite of productivity tools, none of these was shown at this week's launch.
Building on the Premium Suite of productivity features offered with the original Galaxy Note, the Galaxy Note II delivers an even more robust portfolio of tools for business professionals.
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.
We have yet to adopt iWork around the office, but if you've been able to integrate Apple's office suite with your productivity workflow, then you'll likely find remote sync and file access to be incredibly useful.
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Founded in 1975, it rose swiftly to dominate the world of personal computing with its Windows operating system and Office suite of word-processing and other productivity tools.
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The office suite includes Exchange, Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Lync Server, among other web-based productivity tools.
The complete suite of solutions addresses home and business communications, security and surveillance systems, retail information systems, office productivity solutions, and high definition visual conferencing, keeping Panasonic customers connected, informed, accessible and secure.
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