Rivals Set Their Sights on Microsoft Office: Can They Topple the Giant?

It’s open season on Microsoft Office. Google is distributing Sun Microsystems’ StarOffice and also has its own web-based productivity suite. Apple has a new spreadsheet called Numbers to compete with Microsoft’s Excel. Open source suite OpenOffice along with several web-based products are attacking as well. All these challengers emerge at a time when Microsoft’s dominance in productivity software -- Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel -- remains strong. So why try to overthrow the leader? And how vulnerable is Microsoft to this assault?

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