Office 2016 preview under NDA
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@IRJ said:
Those companies all have their own Office suites.....
Well, two of them do. But they are also some of the world's biggest companies and a lot of smaller ones follow their leads. Apple makes their own OS too, but doesn't run on it. They run on Linux primarily and AIX secondary. (Apple uses Apple laptops, obviously.)
But they also demonstrate that huge companies don't have a reliance on MS Office as much as people assume.
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Roche (where @dominica and @katie used to work) is on Google Apps. They are a 90,000 seat global pharmaceutical. Pretty big there.
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Woolworth's and Virgin, two huge players.
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BBVA, the big Spanish bank, is on Google Apps.
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Change, where I am, is on Google Apps. They are not large enough to qualify for this list here yet, but are expected to be way larger than you are looking for (and still on Apps) by later this year.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
Those companies all have their own Office suites.....
Well, two of them do. But they are also some of the world's biggest companies and a lot of smaller ones follow their leads. Apple makes their own OS too, but doesn't run on it. They run on Linux primarily and AIX secondary. (Apple uses Apple laptops, obviously.)
But they also demonstrate that huge companies don't have a reliance on MS Office as much as people assume.
This is an older article, but its an interesting read on the subject
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Microsoft-Office-Still-Tops-the-Charts/story.xhtml?story_id=11300CMAFY18I think compatibility is the key. I don't use Google Docs so I don't know how compatible it is with MS Office.
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I bet that Zoho could hop in here with a list of large customers of their own too. They are a direct competitor with Google Apps and are active here on ML.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I bet that Zoho could hop in here with a list of large customers of their own too. They are a direct competitor with Google Apps and are active here on ML.
I actually like Zoho alot for my personal use. They offer free email that is much better than standard webmail
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@IRJ said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I bet that Zoho could hop in here with a list of large customers of their own too. They are a direct competitor with Google Apps and are active here on ML.
I actually like Zoho alot for my personal use. They offer free email that is much better than standard webmail
They offer 25 accounts free for business right now. I bet we'll get some info about that tomorrow!
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I bet that Zoho could hop in here with a list of large customers of their own too. They are a direct competitor with Google Apps and are active here on ML.
I actually like Zoho alot for my personal use. They offer free email that is much better than standard webmail
They offer 25 accounts free for business right now. I bet we'll get some info about that tomorrow!
I have used it on my domains and I love it.
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@scottalanmiller said:
They offer 25 accounts free for business right now. I bet we'll get some info about that tomorrow!
@IRJ said:
I have used it on my domains and I love it.
I have Google Apps grandfathered in from when it was free for my daerma.com domain and my Uncle's salvage yard domain. I was debating setting something up to handle my other domains, but now I will look at Zoho for that.
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NTG has a sub-domain grandfathered with Google Apps too.
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I use Zoho, on my personal domain, for webmail, works very well. I haven't touched their documents suite though. I went through most of my high school and all of my college (undergrad and grad) with just Google Apps. Sending in files as a PDF was the solution to things not being compatible. Now though I don't think I've had a problem in recent years with incompatibility.
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I'm going to go ahead and sign my life away and try it out.
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I'd say let us know what you think of it, but NDA...
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@Doughnut said:
I'm going to go ahead and sign my life away and try it out.
Only applies till it goes GA, so not that bad really
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@scottalanmiller meh, makes no difference to me. Bill Gates has had an eternal death grip on my soul for the last 25 or so years anyways.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Roche (where @dominica and @katie used to work) is on Google Apps. They are a 90,000 seat global pharmaceutical. Pretty big there.
Oh, I wonder how switching to Google Apps has changed the helpdesk support requests. I bet that all the remote users are so much happier with this change. You've made me all nostalgic thinking about my old users.
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I wonder if they will address the Office 2013 IMAP issues. There is a thread in the Microsoft forums that is pages long. Microsoft never bothered to reply to it even. Everyone in the thread worked together to find work arounds. It is mostly turning off all the bloatware features in the plug-in's.
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@Dominica in theory support requests will go way down as many of the major apps move completely to the browser. No more install, reinstall or version change requests. Only the "help me use this" handholding requests would remain.
