How Apple Could Really Change the World: Kill Office

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famousringo said:

mrstickball said:
To first unseat Microsoft, you have to have a relevant market share. Apple does not have that by a country mile.

That depends on how you think of market share:

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23849612#.UNDon6Uhw3E

http://www.asymco.com/2012/12/13/below-the-surface/

People are doing an awful lot of personal computing on devices where Office isn't even available. Every single iPad that gets deployed in enterprise is proof that work can get done without full Office compatibility. Microsoft's most powerful marketing tool is the conceit that work can't get done if it isn't Windows and it isn't Office, and mobile is blowing that assumption apart. 

My mum is a university professor and she's been given an iPad 3...but the only thing it's useful for (in terms of work) is its calendar service. Apple needs to get MS to release Office for iOS or universities and other businesses will start to deploy Windows 8 tablets to their workers instead of iPads.