Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 21:00:19 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] M$ going... going.....Microsoft Office Applications Barely Used By Many Employees, New Study Shows
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Excerpt:
Techworld \342\200\224 Organizations are wasting money licensing Microsoft Office
applications that the majority of employees barely use, a study released
this week by application analytics startup SoftWatch has found.
Conclusion: many users could easly be migrated to far cheaper cloud
applications such as Google Apps.

The firm carried out a 3-month analysis of Office suite use in 51 global
firms representing 148,500 employees, revealing that seven out of ten
employees weren't using any single application heavily, launching them
only for viewing or light editing.

The average employee spent only 48 minutes per day using Office, largely
the Outlook email client, which consumed about 68 percent of that
activity. Excel was in second place with 17 percent, or an average of 8
minutes per day, leaving Word and PowerPoint trailing with only 5 minutes
and 2 minutes per day each.
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<http://www.cio.com/article/752312/Microsoft_Office_Applications_Barely_Used_By_Many_Employees_New_Study_Shows>

     mark