[RottenHuman]

> replaced nearly nonexistent with irrelevant to make my point clearer

I'm afraid your point is still not clear. What's your metric for declaring a market irrelevant?

A conventional office suite is still the solution which is overwhelmingly dominating the market. Maybe look outside your own bubble and bias. A lot of business will never give away there confidential documents in the hands of third party cloud hosts. (which is the sane approach). So what's your criteria for calling that niche, irrelevant or even non-existent?

[ucaetano]

When all the major players are switching to a different market. Sure, the installed base is still conventional office suites, but that's like saying that the car market is still gas-based even if all new cars sold are electrical (hypothetical situation).

http://www.winbeta.org/news/office-365-overtakes-google-apps... Bitglass also found that the share of companies using a cloud application for their productivity suite rose from 28% last year to 48% this year. Their report shows that Microsoft has successfully capitalized on the growth in cloud based productivity suite adoption rates to take the lead from Google.