No matter it is Google doc or Microsoft office, Have you used both of it for your assignments? For me, I found Microsoft office is a way better than Google Doc because I don’t need any internet access to finish my work even I need to pay an expensive price for this software. Over to last few years, Microsoft has generated a large amount of cash from sales of its office software. However, Microsoft suddenly offer their users a real time document editing-Office web Apps for free last week.

What bring Google and Microsoft into making these office money into cloud service? When the Google doc first offered in 2006, it was just a curiosity threat to Microsoft because Cloud based service is not common at that time. The increasing popular of cloud based service make Google doc become extremely useful for the users. It made Google Docs become a legitimate threat to Microsoft. However, Google doc still lack of some Microsoft office’s advanced feature but it is simple to use than office. In the future, Microsoft is still a huge player in this business because a recorded has shown Microsoft has 90% market share.

If we change our thinking, we focus on cloud based service. Everything will changes

Google has found over 120 million user is using its Google doc service while Microsoft has only 50 million user is using it office web apps. Google seems can afford to give away software for free but Microsoft can’t. Apparently, Google makes money off its productivity by selling web ads. They keeps their users become more closer by offering this free service. In the other side, office sales are about a third Microsoft total annual revenue, it is hard to make it free and difficult to beat Google doc. From the conclusion, It shows that Google doc and office have it own advantage and disadvantage,respectively. They both are facing the business challenges each other.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/13/technology/enterprise/microsoft-office-google-docs/index.html?iid=SF_BN_River