Google and Singtel are rapidly signing up small and medium-sized companies in Asia to use the Google Apps suite of web software (email, video, chat, office software like Microsoft Office).
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.
Most are limited to apps, meaning you have to forego even basic software like Microsoft Office.
This would surely make companies like Microsoft sweat, whose application software (Microsoft Office) has been the bastion for the company so far, contributing the maximum value to its stock.
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Although this is more cost effective for its customers, cloud-based Office software will cost Microsoft more when compared to supplying software that is installed on the computers and servers of customers.
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We use Windows Terminal Server as a thin client to operate our three main software applications: Microsoft Office, QuickBooks and GoldMine, a customer relationship management program.
For example, if an employer can demonstrate that a typing test and skills tests using Microsoft Office software products constitute a fair sample of the content of an administrative assistant job, then the tests will probably be considered content valid.
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"One of the things that has pushed Microsoft into the home has been that people spend a lot of time on Microsoft software in the office and feel comfortable with it when they get home, " he told WBR.
He admitted that the computers were not suitable for people wanting to use traditional software packages such as Photoshop and Microsoft Office.
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He concluded a peace pact with the old enemy, Microsoft, to ensure that the latest version of Microsoft's Office software would run on Apple's Macintosh operating system.
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.
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.
And most importantly, they're riding a new product cycle that's driven by Windows 7, the new version of Microsoft Office and new server software.
However now, thanks to Google Docs and its success with cloud based software, Microsoft recently announced that it was moving Office to the cloud.
And you could make a case that Microsoft Office's PowerPoint presentation software has too much power--power that is abused by artless employees who use it to craft bloated, incomprehensible presentations.
Chief among them is Microsoft Office, the ubiquitous office productivity software that predominates on both the Windows and Mac platforms.
Many business owners rely on financial software such as QuickBooks, MYOB, Peachtree or Microsoft Office to keep good records of all expenses and revenues.
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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.
Microsoft Office is sold as a bundle of computer software, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
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Gates also revealed the addition of new applications to Microsoft Office, the company's dominant productivity software suite.
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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While Google can launch online spreadsheet and word processing applications, Microsoft can't respond without damaging its powerful Office software business.
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 contrast much of Microsoft's revenue comes from sales of Windows and Office software used on PCs.
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 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 Wall Street Journal previously reported that Microsoft also is planning price breaks for its Windows and Office software as part of a strategy to spur lower-cost touch-screen devices enabled by its Windows software.
Microsoft has traditionally enjoyed very high operating profit margins on its enterprise software products like the Office suite as the incremental costs of producing one more copy of the software are very low.
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