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Sure it does, it competes on many fronts like Office (vs docs), Sharepoint (vs Google Drive), Azure (vs GCP) and many others.

Most of these have a direct relationship to Chrome vs. Edge - for example the Google workspace suite (docs, sheets etc) comes pre-bundled with Chrome whereas Office Online needs to be downloaded like any other website by the user.




> for example the Google workspace suite (docs, sheets etc) comes pre-bundled with Chrome

This is not true


Lol they just hide it very well - go to chrome://apps and check what's there :)


Doesn't a fresh Chrome install add those shortcuts to Windows' desktop?




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