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Re:How Microsoft crushed Slack by theamk on Sunday December 06, 2020 @08:38AM (#25323396)
Most businesses you have interacted with use word.

As other commenters say, many others don’t.

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Re:How Microsoft crushed Slack by devtosales on Sunday December 06, 2020 @10:32AM (#25324100)
Many don’t but most do.
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Re:How Microsoft crushed Slack by theamk on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:12AM (#25332845)
where do you get this info? the statistics say otherwise [0]:

> The office suite market in the United States is split between Google’s G Suite and Microsoft’s Office 365, with G Suite being the market leader holding a share of 59.41 percent and Office 365 occupying 40.39 percent, as of October 2020

I mean, maybe old-style orgs still use MS office, but it looks like all the non-IT ones are moving to Google.

Schools in our town use Google calendar and Google classroom. My gym uses google docs and google forms. Many of the random event "sign-up" pages are on google forms.

"Free" is a great price, and many businesses (especially smaller ones) do not want to pay extra for ms office.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/961105/japan-market-shar...

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