Why businesses will (maybe) like Office 2013

The folks InfoWorld have been playing with Office 2013 and claim to have found three reasons why business will like it . Assuming you ever managed to get over the introduction of the ribbon interface a few versions back.

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) had better be hoping businesses will like Office 2013, because competition in the office productivity suite market is hotter than ever before. Consumers have many other options, many of them cheaper or even free, and businesses are also turning to other designed-to-be business-friendly or cloud-first options such as Google Apps for Business.

While Microsoft has long had a stranglehold on this market segment, that dominance is under threat like never before. If businesses don’t find at least three reasons to like Office 2013, that continued dominance is at risk.

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Jim Love, Chief Content Officer, IT World Canada

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Jeff Jedras
A veteran technology and business journalist, Jeff Jedras began his career in technology journalism in the late 1990s, covering the booming (and later busting) Ottawa technology sector for Silicon Valley North and the Ottawa Business Journal, as well as everything from municipal politics to real estate. He later covered the technology scene in Vancouver before joining IT World Canada in Toronto in 2005, covering enterprise IT for ComputerWorld Canada. He would go on to cover the channel as an assistant editor with CDN. His writing has appeared in the Vancouver Sun, the Ottawa Citizen and a wide range of industry trade publications.

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