[devtosales]

I’ve worked at SAP, Oracle, and a few large consultancies. Most of my customers are in the enterprise size range. Office is used heavily by the larger companies of the world and therefore is used by their software and service vendors.

The only company I’ve ever worked with that was totally google drive was an American startup.

Office is still very much the dominant suite of software across most companies although there are plenty of smaller American companies trying to work without it.

I personally can’t tolerate the the lack of basic formatting that docs offers are how limited sheets and slides are. Just adding section numbers in docs needs an add on and if your collaborators don’t have the same add on they just add new sections without numbering. I can’t imagine large documents without numbering...

[Rapzid]

It's not a monopoly and far from it.

[devtosales]

How far exactly? Most businesses use word.

[Rapzid]

I suppose the distance between being the sole provider, or having exclusive control over, office suite software and the 5 million businesses paying for GSuite as of last year? Or the 2 billion active GSuite users?

Lets make the unit of measure a paying business subscription. We will call them business units, or BUs. Microsoft Office is 5MBUs(mega business units) away from being a monopoly.

[devtosales]

And office had 155 million in 2018 to your 5 million......

[Rapzid]

Ergo.. Not a monopoly.

[devtosales]

How do you quantify?

I also never claimed it was a monopoly in the first. Looks like a few people are arguing against their own projections.

[neodymiumphish]

Most people know Word. Most schools teach Word. It's not the companies' fault for following trends that make it easiest on their employees.

[theamk]

Most businesses you have interacted with use word.

As other commenters say, many others don’t.

[devtosales]

Many don’t but most do.

[theamk]

where do you get this info? the statistics say otherwise [0]:

> The office suite market in the United States is split between Google’s G Suite and Microsoft’s Office 365, with G Suite being the market leader holding a share of 59.41 percent and Office 365 occupying 40.39 percent, as of October 2020

I mean, maybe old-style orgs still use MS office, but it looks like all the non-IT ones are moving to Google.

Schools in our town use Google calendar and Google classroom. My gym uses google docs and google forms. Many of the random event "sign-up" pages are on google forms.

"Free" is a great price, and many businesses (especially smaller ones) do not want to pay extra for ms office.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/961105/japan-market-shar...