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After years of watching Microsoft rake in billions of dollars from its desktop software franchise, its competitors are pouncing.
The computing giant, which has been challenging Microsoft’s desktop dominance for years, said that Lotus Symphony is a standards based alternative to Microsoft’s proprietary Office.
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Meanwhile, Google on Monday introduced Google Presentations, an online version of Microsoft’s PowerPoint presentation application that complements Google’s Web hosted document editor and spreadsheet.
The flurry of investment in productivity software points to technology and business changes in the IT industry that are making Microsoft’s cash cow vulnerable to alternatives, particularly among air jordan 2 ii retro black chrome small businesses and consumers.
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Microsoft air jordan 4 white cement 2012 has shown some signs of reacting to the full court press it’s seeing from competitors.
Last week, it made a version air jordan 11 low white black true red 2013 of its Office suite available to students for $60. It is also developing Office Live, a set of online services that complements Office and is aimed at small businesses.
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