From May to November, the company conducted a study among U.S. Internet users. The study taken from the views of 2400 adult users. The research shows that more than half of them benefited from the office suite from Microsoft, one in twenty of its competitor OpenOffice.org, and package supplied by Google - Google Docs, only 1%.
Similar studies were conducted years ago by the NPD Group. Their results were very similar to those present. But it is worth to refer to them as skeptical because Cameron Turner, CEO is a former employee of Microsoft, where he performed a similar study of the market for Microsoft Office and its competitors. But Turner said that Microsoft has not paid for his research.
The data of office software was also from the Corel WordPerfect. 12 version of this software was used for 3% of users. However, counting the use of WordPerfect from Version 9 to 13 uses a total of 6% of people. This means that it is more popular than OpenOffice.org. We must also mention the Notepad and WordPad. Using them 48% and 21% of users.
The sum of the percentage of all users is not equal to 100, because it happened that they have made use of many editors at once. For example, the Word at the same time benefited 68% of users of Google Docs, and only 26% of users of OpenOffice.
Microsoft hopes to increase its dominance with the upcoming Office Web.
Steve Ballmer says “Google Docs is not our competitor”. Frankly, this increased competition is the OpenOffice and StarOffice. Despite the advertising of Google Docs as a potential competitor to Microsoft Office, OpenOffice is now a deal closer to this position.
According to a Google spokesperson “Google Docs has millions of active users and keeps tens of millions of documents. Since the service was started two years ago, the software are growing strong and steady increase in the number of users, seduced potential "cloud", enabling you to access and edit documents online”.
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