Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Market Share: Microsoft Office vs Google Apps

From BBC article. 5-11-2010

Gartner reports:
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Microsoft Office: 94%
Google Apps: 4%
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...Google Docs now offers word-processing, spreadsheet software and a presentation tool, amongst others. Businesses can pay for premium versions.

It currently has a small (4%) but growing share of the market.

By contrast, Microsoft dominates the Office software space, with a market share of more than 94%, according to Gartner. The vast majority of sales are to businesses.

Business "is still overwhelmingly a Microsoft world", said Sheri McLeish, analyst at Forrester Research.