![]() ![]() " The list of challengers to Microsoft Office is pretty long but their results have been anything but pretty. ![]() ![]() "I've heard rumors but initially discounted them," Charles King, principal analyst for research firm, Pund-IT, told ITPro in an email reply. Several IT analysts, however, said that while they are generally skeptical about such plans by Amazon, it would at least be possible that the company would take such a leap into another new direction. "AWS has also told some large corporate customers it's considering bundling these apps with its recently launched Chime video conferencing apps into a new productivity app suite that will compete with Google G Suite and Microsoft Office 365," a source who allegedly had been briefed on the plans told The Information.Īmazon did not respond to several email inquiries from ITPro seeking comments about its potential plans for an office competitor in the marketplace that would take on Microsoft, Google, LibreOffice and others. Rumors about such a development have been swirling for several months, according to a February report by The Information, which said that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been " working on upgrades to its WorkMail email-calendar app and its WorkDocs file storage-collaboration app to make them more attractive to corporate customers," according to details provided anonymously by two people who do business with Amazon. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Amazon may be looking to expand beyond its huge and powerful music and video services, e-commerce and cloud service provider businesses to take on Microsoft in an entirely new direction by creating its own version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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