Ben Gilbert: belief

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…To bring back to our last episode, what you've seen happened is this resurgence of Microsoft, of the original winner in this space with, granted, some expensive acquisitions that they've made. As we discussed last week, half a billion or so in total. Office 365 and now Outlook and Outlook mobile to Acompli are winning huge share. Yup. I got to find this real quick. There was an interesting point made ... Here we go. About a year and a half ago, Google Apps had doubled the market share of Microsoft's cloud offering according to a research report by Bitglass. The 16% versus 8%, then a whole bunch of people still using, on premise, productivity and e-mail software. More recently, about six months ago, Office 365 had jumped ahead of Google Apps, 25% versus 23%. It's I think where Microsoft got their act together in office 365 and building the cloud productivity tools. To be honest ... I worked on what was then Office Web or Word Web app before they were called Office Online. It's actually my internship at Microsoft. It was a joke compared to Google Docs. I was writing specs and looking at Google Docs for, "How do they do it?" As a reference and then figuring out, "Can we do it better?" "Nope." Not a good place to be as a product team.…

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