In my environment less and less people use Office and more and more people use Google Docs. Not because Google Docs are better than Office (they’re worse) but because for a lot of people it just feels like a lot less hassle to create and share documents using Google Docs. If I was Microsoft I would be worried, thing like this tend to get amplified over time.
Not really sure it's a completely fair comparison.
I've seen a huge trend recently in people using Keynote over PowerPoint. Everything out the box simply looks and "feels" better. Last time I checked, Google Docs didn't let people start making up the presentation on their laptop and then finish it off on the train on their tablet, with no internet connection [1]. In fact I don't think I've ever seen anyone give a presentation to a room from Google Docs, but maybe that's just me?
It also doesn't easily allow people to present to a room with the help of iPhones & iPads to cue/preview the next slide.
Google Docs is amazing, but I think Apple went after them today as well - let's not forget the big bullet hurled in their direction [2].
I'll still be amazed to see any immediate, large scale shift away from Excel anytime soon though.
In a lot of places it has. I can't even remember the last time I opened anything in Office. At work people share links to google docs instead of sending docs.
I am always fascinated by people sharing corporate documents on Google Docs... It blows my mind to put that in the cloud, than allow people to share if among themselves, so if any of them gets his/her account hacked, the hacker will have access to company's corporate secrets... And that's without assuming that Google has access to those as well.
From experience, the global Oil & Gas industry is completely reliant on Excel, and that will not change any time soon. They use it for nearly everything... It's the common UI to bigger, complex systems, and it's the data storage/manipulation tool for more specialized, or "simpler" needs.
Many of the non-Excel applications in this space started out and grew from a monster Excel workbook.
IMHO, people still send the docs or portable files especially when they have to share final and binding contracts. There is quite a bit of lifecycle of a document after it has been created on Google Docs!
Yeah, cause google docs has completely destroyed Office.