Most office types use Microsoft office because they have to, not because they want to. A Wired story confirms what I've long suspected. Forget Microsoft's other lines of business. Office alone is enormous. Microsoft "holds more than 90 percent of the business productivity software market." This results in more than $20 billion in annual sales.

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If SharePoint was the bees' knees, then why did Microsoft just drop $1.2 billion on Yammer? Microsoft is all but admitting that its attempt at social software was, in a word, clunky. I've used SharePoint with some clients and, last time I checked, it required a good deal of setup. It's not web-based, begging-to-go-viral like Yammer. Simon Read More