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Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by mukina2: 12:12pm On Jul 10, 2012


Microsoft, seeing big opportunities with the upcoming wave of new products and services, announced via an official blog post that the company's Office productivity suite is now used by over one billion people worldwide. On top of that, Office 2010 is the most popular version of Office ever."Speaking before nearly 16,000 attendees from around the globe, Kurt DelBene, president of the Microsoft Office Division, announced that 1 billion people worldwide now use Microsoft Office. Fueling that growth has been Office 2010, the most popular version of Office ever. Worldwide, someone buys a copy of Office 2010 every second," Microsoft stated in an official blog post. Microsoft believes that the office division is stronger than ever and all the success the platform has reached is due to "amazing partners." Microsoft Office is now used by over one billion people and Office 365 is set to be one of the fastest-growing offers in company history.

http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-1-billion-people-worldwide-now-use-microsoft-office
Re: Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by purplekayc(m): 12:16pm On Jul 10, 2012
mukina2:

http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-1-billion-people-worldwide-now-use-microsoft-office

What do you expect ? The shit comes with their operating system nah.. Have you tried open office .org's office suit ? Then you will know ..
Re: Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by Nobody: 12:54pm On Jul 10, 2012
Apple may have got the sexy anorexic look down pat, but the PC still holds 90+% of the computing market.
Re: Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by bnajmyboolah: 1:01pm On Jul 10, 2012
I know you can get free office suites that are equally as good. I use openoffice, its the same thing.
Re: Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by iyaski: 1:28pm On Jul 10, 2012
bnajmyboolah: I know you can get free office suites that are equally as good. I use openoffice, its the same thing.

Your right. But people are obsessed with microsoft. That mean the software u said may do the same thing as office but it isn't office. In others words, ''if e no b panadol e no fit b like panadol.''

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Re: Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by Maleeq(m): 2:39pm On Jul 10, 2012
iyaski:

Your right. But people are obsessed with microsoft. That mean the software u said may do the same thing as office but it isn't office. In others words, ''if e no b panadol e no fit b like panadol.''
Gbam!

I use both suites; first experience with OpenOffice was in 2005 and I still use it till date on my linux PC. However, I'd still rate the Microsoft office over it.

P.S: OpenOffice isn't exactly "free" since Oracle took over Sun.

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Re: Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by PHIPEX(m): 2:45pm On Jul 10, 2012
Am not a pessimist but am having an issue with this statistics. There are about 7 Billion people in the world, does it mean that atleast 1 in every 7 persons in the world own a Computer?
Re: Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by searchcorp(m): 2:51pm On Jul 10, 2012
PHIPEX: Am not a pessimist but am having an issue with this statistics. There are about 7 Billion people in the world, does it mean that atleast 1 in every 7 persons in the world own a Computer?

Some people own more than one PC.

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Re: Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by purplekayc(m): 3:07pm On Jul 10, 2012
Maleeq:
Gbam!

I use both suites; first experience with OpenOffice was in 2005 and I still use it till date on my linux PC. However, I'd still rate the Microsoft office over it.

P.S: OpenOffice isn't exactly "free" since Oracle took over Sun.

Says who ? Open office was donated to an open source foundation by oracle ... Check it out..[url]http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Software_Foundation
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Re: Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by okeyxyz(m): 4:00pm On Jul 10, 2012
PHIPEX: Am not a pessimist but am having an issue with this statistics. There are about 7 Billion people in the world, does it mean that atleast 1 in every 7 persons in the world own a Computer?

The statistics indicates the number of licenses that have been bought by users. the office on your computer is one license, then count the computers in your workplace, in your school, in govt ofices & institutions, etc.
Re: Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by cecegorz(m): 4:10pm On Jul 10, 2012
PHIPEX: Am not a pessimist but am having an issue with this statistics. There are about 7 Billion people in the world, does it mean that atleast 1 in every 7 persons in the world own a Computer?
You are limiting your figures to individuals, think about corporations, govt establishments that owns tens of thousands of computers.
Re: Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by okeyxyz(m): 4:13pm On Jul 10, 2012
bnajmyboolah: I know you can get free office suites that are equally as good. I use openoffice, its the same thing.

iyaski:
Your right. But people are obsessed with microsoft. That mean the software u said may do the same thing as office but it isn't office. In others words, ''if e no b panadol e no fit b like panadol.''

it's not just above having a product that works, most companies & institutions prefer office because of the customer service and product guarantees that comes with it. If you are an organization running mission critical processes, if something goes wrong or there is some security incidence, you know you can call microsoft because they are the sure experts, they have a duty and responsibility to ensure that their products are fault free. But who owes you a duty for openoffice??
Re: Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by ideylaff: 4:29pm On Jul 10, 2012
okeyxyz:



it's not just above having a product that works, most companies & institutions prefer office because of the customer service and product guarantees that comes with it. If you are an organization running mission critical processes, if something goes wrong or there is some security incidence, you know you can call microsoft because they are the sure experts, they have a duty and responsibility to ensure that their products are fault free. But who owes you a duty for openoffice??

God bless you more daily @okeyxyz for the lovely answer.../reply
Re: Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by pak: 7:03pm On Jul 10, 2012
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bnajmyboolah: I know you can get free office suites that are equally as good. I use openoffice, its the same thing.


As much as I like to support FOSS cos I primarily work with open source tools. I must admit that open office cannot hold a candle to Msoft office suite. I mean you cant compare calc and writer to excel and office.
A colleague once tried to create a range on open office and it went like 28th, 29th, 30th, 31th, 32th, 33th . . . .

Maybe in future they'll catch up (like Mozilla did to explorer) but right now they'r still behind
Re: Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by Maleeq(m): 10:02pm On Jul 10, 2012
purplekayc:

Says who ? Open office was donated to an open source foundation by oracle ... Check it out..[url]http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Software_Foundation
[/url]
Oh really? Then explain why the core developers of the original OpenOffice after Oracle took over formed LibreOffice?

And oh, the link you provided is talking about "Apache" not OpenOffice smiley Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:

On 28 September 2010, several members of the OpenOffice.org project formed a new group called "The Document Foundation". The Document Foundation created LibreOffice from their former project in response to Oracle Corporation's purchasing of Sun Microsystems over concerns that Oracle would either discontinue OpenOffice.org, or place restrictions on it as an open source project, as it had on Sun's OpenSolaris.

It was originally hoped that the LibreOffice name would be provisional, as Oracle was invited to become a member of The Document Foundation. Oracle rejected requests to donate the OpenOffice.org brand to the project and demanded that all members of the OpenOffice.org Community Council involved with The Document Foundation step down from the OOo Community Council, citing a conflict of interest.

The Go-oo project was discontinued in favour of LibreOffice. Improvements made by the project were merged into LibreOffice.[citation needed] Also underway is the reduction of Java dependency.

As a result of the fork of OpenOffice.org into LibreOffice, Oracle announced in April 2011 that it was terminating the commercial development of OpenOffice.org, therefore releasing the majority of the paid developers.In June 2011, Oracle announced that it would contribute the OpenOffice.org code and trademark to the Apache Software Foundation, where the project was accepted for a project incubation process within the foundation.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice

Googling would reveal the rift since oracle took over, and oh, I've just seen the "donation" to open source...Funny...they take over an open source project and donate it back to open source and expect a round of applause? Its was the pressure from the community that made them cede this "donation".
Re: Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by WarHorse1(m): 8:07am On Jul 11, 2012
I am a fan of Microsoft Office and a certified Microsoft Office specialist for Access and Excel 2007 version. I extensively use Excel and Access using VBA for automation. I can say if i will find such functionality in OpenOffice. I did install openoffice once but the interface were discouraging.

I don't want to appear biased but Microsoft has enchanted me and I think its for life. i am a Microsoft Office Advocate. obssession you may call it.
Re: Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by Okijajuju1(m): 8:11am On Jul 11, 2012
Microsoft office would be hard to kill because its easily the most used software across the world... Whats the point of making a presentation on another software and sending it out and the user isnt able to open it..
Re: Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by Nobody: 8:45am On Jul 11, 2012
the side and (denied) benefits of piracy - if MSoffice was impossible to pirate, there would be far more users of open office, and MSoffice market share would erode.

as an aside, i'm plenty sure that 95% of the features in office are unused by 90% of the users. office 97 would work just as well for them

probably one of the major reasons for the ribbon - the previous toolbars meant that most people ended up using only three sets of tools. anything more and you'd have serious encroachment of screen real estate
Re: Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by Nobody: 8:47am On Jul 11, 2012
Maleeq:
Gbam!

I use both suites; first experience with OpenOffice was in 2005 and I still use it till date on my linux PC. However, I'd still rate the Microsoft office over it.

P.S: OpenOffice isn't exactly "free" since Oracle took over Sun.

just larry and his long range plans for sticking it to MS imho - which i think was also mcnealy's strategy
Re: Microsoft Office: 1 Billion People Worldwide Use It by Afam4eva(m): 4:01pm On Jul 11, 2012
It comes with an open source operating system, so what do you expect?

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