Google attacks Microsoft ‘giving away’ software users – lagranepoca

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Google tightened its attacks on the lucrative Office software from Microsoft, on Monday reported, in an attempt to beat his old rival him where it it hurt. The target companies and government agencies are paid to work with word processing, e-mail, calendar, spreadsheet and other Office programs.

If you leave Microsoft, Google let them use their own parcel no cost, which usually costs $ 5 to $ 10 per user per month.

“Google for Work” software will be free for as long as customers have a contract with Microsoft or any other vendor. The offer will be open the next six months in the United States and at some point be extended to other countries.

Google is limiting free access to three thousand people a deserter client. Even with this restriction, the company expects from 180,000 to 360,000 dollars in annual revenue if a company with three thousand people accepted the offer.

As an added incentive, the company offers a payout of up to $ 75,000 each company to change its software to cover the cost of making the change.

Google, which is now owned by a newly formed company called Alphabet Inc., would not say how much is budgeted for this recent attack Google against Microsoft Corp. estimates that more than 600 companies have at least 10 thousand employees who use Work.

The offer demonstrates the confidence that has Google on the quality of its software and is determined to hit a of the most profitable franchises Microsoft said Jim Lundy, an analyst at Aragon Research. The expert estimated that Microsoft customers currently pay $ 12 to $ 20 per user under contracts lasting several years.

Office generated 23 thousand 500 million dollars to Microsoft, almost a third of revenues software company in the fiscal year that ended in June.

The digital advertising continues to represent virtually all of Google’s revenue, which totaled 66 billion dollars last year. The company based in Mountain View, California, has used part of the money to be subtracted from the domain that has Microsoft in the office software since it introduced a series of rival programs for almost a decade.

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