> Sure, there are plenty of situations where that doesn't work, but as the "web as a platform" advances, and as office products on the web advance, the reasons

> Sure, there are plenty of situations where that doesn't work, but as the "web as a platform" advances, and as office products on the web advance, the reasons for sticking with installed apps will continue to decline. This is true, but it doesn't have to be one or the other. Office 365 lets you have full-strength desktop programs as well as web apps and smartphone apps, at one low price. This may be why Office 365 seems to be growing faster than Google Docs, and why it has overtaken it, according to one survey. (1) Of course, there are other considerations. First, most real businesses need something much more powerful than today's web apps. Second, Microsoft Office is a programmable platform with a huge range of third-party add-ons. Third, a lot of big companies have two decades of Office programming and Office documents. Even if they really want to move everything to the cloud, they're going to run hybrid and in-house cloud systems for a long time.... (1) http://www.computerworld.com/article/2974016/enterprise-applications/office-365-tops-salesforce-as-most-popular-enterprise-service.html http://www.computerworld.com/article/2974016/enterprise-appl...