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Story: No Office on Linux 'at this time'

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The Microsoft market share will become more and more fragmentated. Meaning increasing numbers of organizations that run all sorts of Windows versions, Office versions, whatever versions in all sorts of languages and in combination with all sorts of third-party tools in various versions as well. In the mean time the world wide adoption of non-Microsoft solutions will increase. For one because Microsoft won't really support older Microsoft software versions that well if at all. And Microsoft software works not that well with others so something needs to provide (which won't be, at least not enough, Microsoft). Second, Microsoft needs increasing revenue streams one way or another. If they can't get that by finding new markets to exploit they'll have to resort to whatever they can milk out of their existing customers or at the expense of their current partners. That won't work out in their favour. Sure, they have an enormous warchest but they also have huge expenses. Something has to give sooner or later. Mind the snowball effect.

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