Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by bombcar 1351 days ago
macOS is the important one - if Microsoft support for office on Mac wasn’t as good as it is, they could be in existential danger.

Already Google Apps has made a strong play, and Microsoft is doing quite a good job defending. Teams is only a part of it.

And there’s also mobile, which they lost entirely. That could be a risk, too, and they know it.

1 comments

I don’t know. I bought office for my Mac 4 years ago and used it maybe twice. Google docs might not be quite as good but good enough for most things. I also hate looking at the ribbon (but that is just personal preference).
Yeah, for home/personal use they're all the same, and many people don't own anything Microsoft in that arena - Google docs from a iPhone/Mac/Chromebook are often "good enough".

Businesses they still have a stranglehold, but even there I've noticed it loosening.