> Nobody can compete with Microsoft's office suite all-in-one + the kitchen sink bundle, though, so it persists.
Well, there's Google Workspace (and a few smaller, less comprehensive suites) as a very competitive alternative with everything + kitchen sink, but
- nobody ever got fired buying ~IBM~ Microsoft
- MS is already in all enterprises, so it's quite easy for their sales people to position their products
- the people who make the decision to buy M365 aren't the power users who suffer from the poor design in the products
- there's a huge vendor lock-in due to lots of legacy .docx, .pptx and .xlsx files that won't be parsed correctly by 3rd party software due to the formats' intentional complexity
Interesting factoid about Google Workspace: if you send me a google docs link, I, with any Google account (even Federated identity account) can use and modify that document as a regular user.
That's not true for Microsoft, and I was forced to buy some Office software for our business because an external company used Microsoft products. Quite infectious.
Yet they could use our tools free of charge, they just refused.
Well, there's Google Workspace (and a few smaller, less comprehensive suites) as a very competitive alternative with everything + kitchen sink, but
- nobody ever got fired buying ~IBM~ Microsoft
- MS is already in all enterprises, so it's quite easy for their sales people to position their products
- the people who make the decision to buy M365 aren't the power users who suffer from the poor design in the products
- there's a huge vendor lock-in due to lots of legacy .docx, .pptx and .xlsx files that won't be parsed correctly by 3rd party software due to the formats' intentional complexity