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Re:Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft by basch on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @11:16AM (#23917907)
>You need to get acquired (by Google or Facebook), because I don't think you can innovate an office productivity suite fast enough to compete.

Dropbox, Box, Asana, Airtable, Zoho, Amazon, Adobe. There's other ways they could grow to become Microsoft that don't start with document editing. Adobe in particular would be an attractive mix. Google and Facebook sound like mediocre homes, because they already offer such overlapping suites, but maybe its just about user acquisition. Oracle would probably be interested in monetizing chat.

At the end of the day though, they will need a competitive spreadsheet offering. Everyone needs spreadsheets.

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Re:Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft by lewisjoe on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @03:50PM (#23920835)
Yes, unlike other softwares office suite is too complicated a problem to pursue. Zoho's cloud office suite is the only thing that comes close to Microsoft's offerings. And Zoho does offers a spreadsheet software as part of its suite.
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