Wall Street Journal

Microsoft, Adobe Widen Data Services
October 1, 2007

Microsoft is rolling out a free service that lets users of its Office software create and share documents over the Internet in new ways. The move comes as Google Inc., Microsoft’s nemesis in Internet search, has been trying to popularize Web services that handle key functions of Office.

That trend has yet to fully take off, said Michael Mace, a principal at technology-consulting firm Rubicon Consulting Inc. In a survey of more than 2,000 adults who have a computer at home, conducted this past summer, Rubicon found that while 34% of computer owners have used Web based email services and 20% have played games online, Web-based services for word processing and spreadsheets have been used by just 5% and 3% of computer users, respectively.

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