http://www.businessinsider.com/google-plan-to-beat-microsoft-office-2015-2
I knew Office was struggling to find a way to get people to continue paying for Office somehow, but I didn't know Google Apps had become that much of a potential competitor. Did MS drop the ball on this one too?
QuoteGoogle knows there's very little chance that companies are going to wake up one day and throw Microsoft Office out completely. Instead, Google wants them to buy Apps in addition to the Office licenses they already have.
This may sound like doubling up. Why buy Apps if you already have Office?
But Singh believes the double-use will only happen for a short while. In the end, companies will stop buying new Office licenses for employees who don't really need it.
Read more: http://uk.businessinsider.com/google-plan-to-beat-microsoft-office-2015-2?r=US#ixzz3REsWuX50
Interesting. That is the exact pattern that we have followed. We still can't yet be without excel for a few users, but it is close. If we spent a few days writing add-ons for Google sheets we could possibly be done with it completely, although we'd still have the big datasets issue.