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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by jrochkind1 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @10:23PM (#25272906)
> If they had purchased Dropbox and Slack they could've gotten a foothold rather quickly and slowed down one of Microsoft's major selling points (you already use Office, why not Azure?).

Are you suggesting an enterprise is going to leave Office for Dropbox and Slack? Cause that's not happening.

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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by easton on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @10:41PM (#25273007)
Small businesses aren't nearly as attached, and the Office experience sucks on mobile and web. There's definitely a market for someone who can get that right, and I don't think that someone is Microsoft. I say this as someone who is irrevocably attached to Excel (and to a lesser extent, Word and PowerPoint), I don't think Microsoft is currently willing to cut off the entire ecosystem of software based around Office on the desktop, but if you were to make a clean break, make it cheap and have it work great on web and mobile, a new player could have a shot. There's tons of people going to Google and their suite isn't great, what if it was?
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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by higerordermap on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:59PM (#25273419)
Can you explain the shortcomings of both Google suite and MSO on mobile/web you mention?
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