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One of Microsofts flagship products is Microsoft Office. It's a great suite of software, it's ubiquitous, people are familiar with it, etc. But the selling po
by blhack 13y ago
One of Microsofts flagship products is Microsoft Office. It's a great suite of software, it's ubiquitous, people are familiar with it, etc.
But the selling point of it is that it's familiar. When we recently starting transitioning to google apps at my office, people damn near rioted.
It wasn't that MS Office offered something that GA didn't, it was that they were scared that they wouldn't know how to work the new interface.
So...think about that, Microsoft. People aren't holding on to your product because it is the best, people are hanging on to your product because it is the most familiar.
I think that time will erode that.
- taopao 13y agoTime, and the Ribbon, and Metro...
- davidgerard 13y agoHuh. We moved to GApps and our people cried tears of joy. Mind you, that was moving from Lotus Notes for email and calendar. Fuck me, GApps is heaven by comparison. I wrote the Uncyclopedia article inspired by having to use the damn thing: http://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Lotus_Notes http://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Lotus_Notes
- MichaelGG 13y agoExcel offers far more than familiarity. Anyone that thinks the competitors are on-par probably doesn't use Excel much.
- mrdodge 13y agoA lot of people use Excel for making lists and doing very simple calculations. You can do that just fine in Google Apps.