It’s going to hurt Microsoft’s profits. Productivity software has transformed from a must-have big purchase to a service that needs to mesh perfectly with the cloud (including simultaneous collaboration). If they didn’t make Office free with the Surface there wouldn’t have been any selling point to the thing, and with Google and Apple making their (not as powerful but good enough for most people) productivity software free Microsoft had to do something.
Microsoft Office Web Apps get real-time co-editing, similar to Google Drive http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/07/microsoft-office-web-apps-updated-with-real-time-co-editing/?ncid=rss_truncated via feedly.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
