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I think the bigger hit to Microsoft, or just as big, is the free and much improved iWorks. Now there are 2 office suites from 2 big companies being offered for free (Docs and iWorks), which are becoming increasingly more popular not just with consumers, but a lot of enterprise customers, too.

Microsoft should be terrified. Both of their cash cows are getting rapidly commoditized.

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Is this really the case? According to a survey by Forrester[0], corporations are still largely dominated by Microsoft products.

[0]http://blogs.forrester.com/philipp_karcher/13-10-17-office_p...

Wait and see if iWorks makes it into corporate environments. I'm not sure it will. Google Docs has a better chance.

I would think iWorks is targeting the same market ClarisWorks did from 1984 until the 90s. [1]

It's the same reason iOS is coming into corporate environments: people want to use it.

iWorks is never going to be a threat to Microsoft in corporate environments, really. But the fact that Apple's customers don't need Microsoft at all just as Microsoft is taking a big step into consumer devices is probably an issue.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleWorks

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