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"_open a new market_ for advertising, and to gather data for the same." No, I think they wanted to make money from it directly via Enterprise sales. MS Office
by jariel 6y ago
"_open a new market_ for advertising, and to gather data for the same."
No, I think they wanted to make money from it directly via Enterprise sales.
MS Office is the #1 source of profit for MS for a long while.
In the 2000's it seemed 'everything was going cloud', naturally Google thought they could leapfrog MS into that space.
But it didn't work out.
- bsder 6y agoWell, obviously, if Google was going to have to take an actual phone call from somebody when things went pear-shaped, that was never going to work out.
- dx034 6y agoAnd that even though MSFT started creating Office Online much later and also had to basically create a whole new product. And yet they now have the by far superior product.