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wraggster
April 12th, 2013, 22:14
"Microsoft Office slideware for iOS and Android has been resisting many migrations to Google Apps. Although a number of the largest companies, from KLM to Disney, have already moved to Google Apps, most large companies are still using Microsoft Office heavily. The majority of current Google users are smaller businesses (http://blog.backupify.com/2012/01/26/who-uses-google-apps-are-large-companies-pushing-it-to-a-billion-dollar-business/). Now Microsoft has been forced to admit that its office suite for Android will be delayed by at least a year and Zdnet tells us (http://www.zdnet.com/big-winner-with-office-for-ipad-and-android-delay-google-7000013841/) that Google will be the big winner from that. However, they also say QuickOffice, rather than Google Apps, will be the main winner. Other Android app suites will benefit too, though currently the Android version of LibreOffice (http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/Android-ARM@24-Bytemark-Hosting/) is only available as a dev build for sideloading and is having some difficulties packaging for Google Play (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/libreoffice-for-android-frustratingly-close-to-release/), so it may not benefit from this delay unless more volunteers step up to help. Microsoft relies heavily on Office for revenue (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229220/With_Windows_struggling_Microsoft_relies_on_Office _for_revenue), so this may represent a real, long-term threat to the company.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/04/12/128201/ms-office-tablet-delay-gives-google-a-real-chance-and-not-just-google-apps