For Microsoft Office series and many challengers, the difficulties faced by the next generation of products are similar. They often do not lack the common functions of a stable core and near-perfect, but no more things to attract customers, and thus preserve or vying for market share. In other words, the maximum pressure they face, not from a direct competitor, but the demand for office software bottleneck. Therefore, the design of the next generation of office products, the most important thing is to break the habit of creating a new user needs.
Modern office software is currently towards the development of two routes. One is more compact, local software localization, such as Chinese users familiar with Kingsoft WPS Office and Evermore Integrated Office and other office software of these two recently released their 2009 version, although it is still to imitate and compatible with Microsoft Office points, but the Personal Edition free download and hundreds of MB of "slim" was able to attack to Microsoft Office, it hurts. Down this route, lightweight client and more and more complete functional will have the opportunity in netbooks and mobile devices to show their talents, if coupled with the localization of the natural advantages of easier access to the local telecom operators recognition. Not long ago, WPS Office netbooks customized version into the Beta version of the beta at the same time, the the Jinshan market has already begun negotiations with the various online vendors, and signed a big one, laid WPS Office in this field market foundation.
As office software, an alternative route, it will work with the web browser more closely, on the one hand to provide free services for individual users in order to establish identity, on the one hand, providing enterprise users with traffic accounting SaaS (Software as a Service) solution. In this way, Google Docs and Google Apps gone furthest, IBM, Lotus Notes, Adobe Buzzword, and so on, by virtue of their business advantage to enter this field.
Office 2010 by adding a clear indication of Microsoft's strategic thinking: has a strong local software as a technical background and relying on the market in the past two years, Microsoft gradually server products onto the cloud, such as Exchange for the Internet environment Online, SharePoint Online, and so on, is Microsoft's implementation of flexible billing authorization, a wide range of mobile devices access buried a nice foreshadowing, coupled with the market continues to heat up and SharePoint Office Server, Microsoft is no doubt the next generation client product design focus from strengthening the client functionality into the further integration of server products, Office 2010 is an example.
Throughout history, Microsoft Office has been Microsoft's most assured of the product line. MacOS and Linux family of operating systems and some proud capital, but the dominant position of Microsoft Office desktop office almost can not shake the competitors had to use a "perfectly compatible with Office" or "use up much like the Office other words decorate facade. Of course, this situation continued until 2008. During the year, open source software, and network free office are growing louder, especially dancing under the banner cloud computing, Google Docs, OpenOffice, and a number of network office software is the impact of Microsoft Office. Compared with these young and scrappy competitors, the Office product went to the 2007 version looks a little boring, a large number of users have chosen to retain the classic Windows XP and Office 2003 a combination. The next version of Microsoft Office Gairuhezou? Look at the leaked version of Office 2010, Microsoft will not dilute the client software this mature market, but through the "cloud effect" to strengthen the server side, substantive enhance the performance of the client.
