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Part of the problem is that, for better or for worse, Microsoft Office is the standard in corporations. Everybody in the company knows how to create, open, and
by teuobk 18y ago
Part of the problem is that, for better or for worse, Microsoft Office is the standard in corporations. Everybody in the company knows how to create, open, and display PowerPoint presentations. Replacing PowerPoint would require a massive retraining effort and expense. I'm not sure that the benefits of a browser-based solution can compensate.
To make matters worse, it's not just a training problem. I've worked places where document management systems were designed to work with MS Office documents and PDFs -- and that's it. Everything else had to be converted to one of the supported formats before it could be stored in the system and routed for approval. A broken system? Perhaps. My point is that IS system limitations can also be reasons for the workforce at a company to stick with MS Office.