Microsoft Office is legacy software. Its killer won't have anything to do with, it will be totally different. For example, Slack.
I mean, killing PowerPoint is not making a webapp to create presentations, but creating something that makes creating presentations unnecessary.
Ideas: SaaS, ML, cloud dashboards and analytics, communication.
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It's a matter of tradition. Older firms with a large collection of native Office documents need Office. Newer ones without that baggage can be more adaptable.
I think you're missing the point. Presentations are no different than giving a speech with visual aids, with the additional benefit of sharing your notes after the fact. You can give a sales pitch, a conference talk, an internal update, or share some info about your favorite band. Its free form and incredibly versatile. Analytics isn't going to replace a conference talk, or a sales pitch.
That's not to mention the wide variety of uses for Excel. It's everything from a financial analysis tool to a digital scratch paper.
Slack is fine but it's just a slow irc client with pretty good search.
Ugh all I want is to be able to grep my Slack conversations instead of using their search interface, which drives me mad :( :( :(
A business can't write office documents and do spreadsheets in Slack, and they'll need to do both things well into the year 2100.
What you describe is not an "office killer". Is just an app that might win businesses for a different task.
At best an Outlook Server killer, or a totally new category.
>I mean, killing PowerPoint is not making a webapp to create presentations, but creating something that makes creating presentations unnecessary.
That's not how it works, except in a handful of situations and only when the new product covers the same basic need (e.g. Netflix vs VHS or Cinema).
Much slower, much less features (people might not use all 100% of Word, but the 20% they do use has a lot of non-overlapping features between them), files are totally necessary, and not all businesses/organizations want (or are even allowed by law) to give their data to Google.
Whoever finds a way to replace Excel spreadsheets with something better will make a lot of money...