Meanings of office productivity software in English

But securing the consumer market is essential to keeping control over the office productivity software market, Longbottom said.

Slack's emergence as a popular platform for workplace messaging and document-sharing is a threat to Microsoft's long-standing dominance in office productivity software.

At stake in the current round of criticism are the file formats created by office productivity software, such as word processing and spreadsheet applications.

Microsoft posted sales and profit that topped analysts' projections, lifted by demand for Azure cloud-computing programmes and internet-based versions of Office productivity software.