Forrester: MS Office Still Sitting Pretty in the Enterprise
New research from Forrester shows that while the poor economy has delayed some upgrades to Microsoft 2007, most enterprises are sticking with some version of Microsoft's productivity suite over alternatives such as Google Apps.
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Microsoft is wooing recession-hit companies seeking to opt out of their software maintenance contracts by cutting the price of leasing software by as much as 26%.
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Online office apps get real
Web-based office suites are coming into their own at last. For quite a while, Web-based suites -- which offered word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and other tools associated with desktop office suites -- were extolled not because they did these things well, but because they could do them at all. But the three major competitors, Google Docs, ThinkFree, and Zoho, have all made major improvements in recent months. They're becoming both broader, with more applications, and deeper, with more features and functionality in existing apps.
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Online office apps get real
Microsoft-led group launches new Open XML-interop tools
Microsoft cuts software leasing costs to retain companies
Forrester: MS Office Still Sitting Pretty in the Enterprise