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Insofar as Excel is needed my question is how badly are new copies of Excel needed? Excel isn't rented out — you can keep using it as long as you need to and it won't do MS a lick of good.


A very good point. And currently Office 365 isnt a value proposition for upgrade. It wont even load most of our department's important spreadsheets.

But dont the big corps work on volume licensing that is renewed regularly? In any case there clearly isnt a rush of new customers.


And MS could see itself in the position of Apple circa 1995, when desktop publishing departments had a few aging macs running pagemaker or quark.


Heh, I can see that. We already have some legacy IE6 internal webapps running on Citrix.




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