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by alt227 458 days ago
Microsoft have always made a point that they can never compete with Google on price of office apps, therefore they try to compete on service, support, and included bells and whistles. This is why when you buy an O365 license you basically get anything Microsoft has ever developed thrown in with it.

Office is Microsofts bread and butter, for Google its a side project that disrupts Microsofts business model.
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ajross 458 days ago
> Microsoft have always made a point that they can never compete with Google on price of office apps, therefore they try to compete on service, support, and included bells and whistles.

So... you're saying the presence in the market of a viable competitor improved the value provided to consumers? Who knew!

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alt227 458 days ago
No Im saying that a big company decided to piss off another big company by offering their main product for free, just because they had infinite money and could. Thats disruption not competition, and you can be sure if Chrome is taken away, the price for Google office apps will increase.
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