The entrepreneur is crazy enough: he chose to challenge Microsoft

Even in Silicon Valley, where the founders are destroying everything, it's hard to find anyone more ambitious than Cloudon's top management Milind Gadekar. He tried to use his strategy and Microsoft's tools to beat Microsoft, who sits 34th in Fortune 500. When Silicon Valley investors Chamath Palihapitiya The first time they heard of Cloudon, the evaluation was: Gadekar crazy. And then invested. The specifics of this crazy plan are to get a license to Microsoft Office and then build a mobile version of Microsoft Office. At the time, Microsoft did not make much effort to push its products to mobile devices. Gadekar that demand exists in the market. Companies see the ipad as a consumer device rather than a production device, "Gadekar said. But people obviously want to be able to use Microsoft Office on their mobile devices. (Microsoft launched a tablet computer surface in 2012 to replace a traditional laptop.) Cloudon on the first day of market-oriented, the mobile app appeared on the Apple App Store list and attracted 100000 people to download it. (8 million times now.) Cloudon's Microsoft app is perfectly legal, but Microsoft executives are still stunned by its success. Executives contacted Gadekar on the first day of the Cloudon listing. Gadekar said Cloudon received several bids, even though the first version of the program was pretty bad ". Gadekar rejected them. Because aspiring companies such as @homenetwork and Epinions have spent his career, he wants to make the company bigger and stronger. Gadekar see the need for people who want to work on their tablets and mobile phones. Palihapitiya Fund, Social + investment fund with others, the company in Gadekar invested 26.1 million of dollars. Now its new version of the user can use gestures to edit. The new version takes into account the way people use mobile touch-screen mobile devices in moving environments, rather than simply duplicating desktop functions (such as Pull-down menus). Cloudon's word processor is compatible with the PC version of Microsoft Word and can be consolidated through cloud storage services (drivers) such as Google Drive, Dropbox, box, and Microsoft's OneDrive. Gadekar said Cloudon will eventually integrate with the content management system and launch relevant software. There is a very obvious question: Can Microsoft, which has a market value of $383 billion, not be able to subdue small companies cloudOn? The answer is obvious--yes. But Gadekar does not believe that Microsoft's corporate culture can make it the top of the mobile device world. The biggest innovation in the software industry comes from Google and its application suite. But tools such as Microsoft and Google are operating on a closed platform, which means they are not always compatible with the software that other companies produce. If the success of companies like Dropbox in Open software is some indication, Microsoft will eventually have to adapt to a world in which it no longer controls everything. (The ipad version of Microsoft word gets a 3-star rating in the Apple App Store.) And Cloudon got four and a half stars. Microsoft is vulnerable because we are no longer living in a world with only one Windows system, "Gadekar said. The future of mobile devices is iOS and Android, not controlled by the IT department, but consumers. "Big technology companies, including Dell, Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard, have become aware of the importance of mobile productivity," he said. They can no longer only be geared toward windows, but they also need to match Google's Android and Apple's iOS systems. Similarly, storage companies are getting involved. Box, Dropbox and Amazon's AWS Cloud services have shown interest in wanting to share a slice of the Microsoft productivity Empire. Office series software is not an unbreakable castle, "Gadekar said. Cloudon 30% of the users are students, while the remaining 70% is made up of small and medium-sized enterprises. Of course, Cloudon wants to make those small businesses pay for advanced features and eventually develop strong enough software for large enterprises to use. Large companies, including GE and Virgin Group, have been interested in enterprise-version software, Gadekar said. If everything goes according to plan, Cloudon next year will have the ability to raise more money to carry out the relevant research and development. However, Cloudon has faced a major challenge. Microsoft's ipad version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote has been downloaded more than 35 million times. Office 365 uses more than 1 billion of the desktop users. Gadekar said that one of Microsoft's executives once told him that you chose to take risks in the deepest depths of the ocean. "How did Gadekar respond?" he said. "(via entrepreneur entrepreneur content for the entrepreneurial State exclusive copyright, reproduced please specify)