Office has been abandoned Microsoft mobile transition too slow

On May 4, Microsoft's traditional computer version of Office is still an important cash cow in the mobile-device era, and the company is an important buyer of computer-edition office. However, a new survey of 150,000 people around the world shows that Microsoft's traditional office has become more and more inefficient among its employees, and the company's huge licensing fees for office have been wasted. At the same time, the late arrival of the mobile office has left Microsoft at a disadvantage.

It is generally believed that the main users of traditional office in the enterprise, but the new company Softwatch for a large number of employees around the world using Microsoft Office to conduct a survey and analysis, they concluded that most employees rarely use Microsoft Office, if the switch to the cloud computing online Office Tools, Enterprises can save a lot of costs.

The company has studied 148,500 employees from 51 multinationals, all of whom have purchased the license for a computer version of Office. The survey found that 70% of employees, just using Microsoft Office to browse Office documents, or for very simple editing, Office's complex functions, in fact, has become a "device."

The survey found that 68% of the time that employees spent using Microsoft Office in the e-mail client Outlook was equivalent to using the software for half an hour a day. In other Office components, Excel uses only 8 minutes a day, word is 5 minutes, and PowerPoint is 2 minutes.

Of the employees surveyed, 29% said they had never used Excel or Word, or just read the document. 70% of employees said they never edited the need for a PowerPoint document.

62% per cent of employees said they were only occasionally using word (heavily used to account for 9%), and 53% said they only used Excel occasionally (a large number of users accounted for 18%).

PC, the US Science and technology news website, points out that the study points to the end of an all-encompassing Office software era mandated by the monolithic model, and that many people do not use Microsoft Office at all.

While the computer version of Office usage is getting lower, employees are increasingly using mobile version of Office Tools, in mobile Office software, Google (microblogging), Apple and other manufacturers have walked in front of Microsoft, Microsoft has realized its own gap, after Nadra as Microsoft CEO, Microsoft is rushing to release the ipad version of Office.

The media pointed out that because of Microsoft's belated, enterprise staff, schools and other institutions have turned to other companies mobile office software, typically Apple has been launched in 2010 iwork.

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The company's numbers and pages are among the top companies in the iOS platform's enterprise-oriented software, according to a research report by Citrix late last year. Docs2go, Quickoffice and other mobile office products ranked after Apple iwork.

In addition, Microsoft's ipad version of Office to take a charging model, will be subject to a series of free products pressure. For example, the most popular document processing software on the ipad is free notability, followed by Google's docs, Microsoft Word ranked third, and Apple pages ranked eighth in the word processing category.

In the spreadsheet, Google sheets ranked fourth, leading Microsoft Excel, Apple's numbers ranked Nineth.

It needs to be pointed out that there are a large number of independent vendors in the field of online office and mobile office, with a foothold in the unique features, and as Microsoft Office enters the ipad, Google, Apple and Microsoft have a battle in this area.