Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Not a good place to be as a product team. No! No. We were totally trying to fast follow, but built on much older infrastructure and it was a nightmare. What's happened is really the native clients on old platforms at Microsoft had become excellent through building and buying. The cloud applications have held their own. You can do real time collaboration now with Microsoft's applications. Even if the user experience, which in my opinion of their cloud applications is still below Google's. They're at least able to tell that story to the enterprise and Google hasn't won out. What's really interesting here is that I don't think anyone would argue that the cloud versions of Word and Excel and PowerPoint are greater beating, a resurgent or beating Google Docs, but it doesn't matter.…

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