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Not enough to offset their continuing monopoly in productivity software, but it's certainly kept me from buying a Windows device. n=1, ymmv, etc.
by abacadaba 6y ago
Not enough to offset their continuing monopoly in productivity software, but it's certainly kept me from buying a Windows device. n=1, ymmv, etc.
- untog 6y agoEveryone on HN is an outlier, though. We’re very atypical users.
- cameronbrown 6y agoThe word monopoly gets thrown around like it's nothing these days. Google Docs and LibreOffice also exist.
- xref 6y agoMonopoly and anti-competitive go hand in hand, though I don’t think Office has anything to worry about currently. Alternatives to google search exist but they’ve still been declared a monopoly by the EU, with something like a 90% share of searches. In the US we’ve blocked cell phone company mergers that would take them over 40% share for comparison. Of the office suite front Gsuite has ~57% share and MSOffice ~43%