Bernstein is optimistic about Microsoft's ongoing Office transition.
The Build Conference held this year was a platform for Microsoft Corporation to lay out the expectations for is Office platform. Bernstein, the popular equity research organization mentioned in a recent note to investors and customers talked about the impacts of Microsoft’s predictions on their earnings report.In the Build Developers Conference, the company talked about three core aspects that talk about the growth of its Office platform. According to BidnessEtc, “Commercial Office installed base growth, timing of mix shift to Office 365, and increase in customer value as customers shift to Office 365. Bernstein noted that it is highly crucial to gain an insight into how the transition of customers to Office 365 affects Office gross profit since Office is Microsoft's largest business line.” This is said to be the biggest transition to cloud computing that is happening currently.Bernstein believes that the gross profit of Microsoft’s Commercial Office is likely to experience a 6 percent increase in CAGR in the coming three years due to three reasons. Firstly, the company has decided to couple several products that were initially sold on their own. Currently, we have two bundles that come complimentary with Microsoft Office Commercial offerings namely, Data Centre apps and Office Desktop apps. PowerPoint, MS Word and Excel are a part of the Office Desktop Centre applications. Through Office 365, the Desktop applications are allowed to move from licensed to subscription based software with a relatively minimal amount of cloud services.Apart from this, the Data Center packages comprise of apps like Skype for Business, Exchange and SharePoint. These were only retailed to enterprise based clients and are now being moved to cloud gradually. According to Bernstein, this will result in a rise irrespective of which platform it is offered that is license sale or Office 365.Bernstein has also weighed on MicrosoftCorporation, where the company is embracing an ongoing transformation in terms of gross margin profit. The firm has made a forecast where the coming three years can bring a 50 percent of the Office Desktop app and almost two third of these Data Center apps can be made available via Microsoft Office 365. This will help them make a significant rise in terms of its Office Suite performance.Hence, Microsoft has a stable future in the times to come provided it gives due attention to its cloud computing business which has immense potential to grow. This will not only provide the company stability but will also stabilize them in the long run.
Microsoft collaborates with Android tablet makers to preinstall office apps.
Google Inc. has succeeded in maintaining its dominance over the market since the time it has acquired Android Inc. in 2005. This acquisition turned out to be a game changer for them. Thus, this comes as no surprise that Google has succeeded in becoming the frontrunner in terms of providing an enriching user experience. However, at this point of time Microsoft Corporation is working towards a turnaround. The company has decided to break Google’s monopoly by slowly making their way to Android by devising several applications that will not just be useful but are highly sought after.
Companies like Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, Sony Corp., LG Display Co Ltd. are some of the few firms that currently use the Android platform to launch their high-end products and services. However, despite this Apple Inc. has been doing relatively well in comparison to them. One of the reasons behind this is that it has now become relatively difficult to discriminate between a lot of Android products since they bear a striking resemblance in terms of features and specifications. So now big companies have also started to exert pressure on the relatively smaller brands like OnePlus that are the relatively high end but economical.
Although a number of companies have devised ways to make their products stand out in the market while the others are still struggling. MSFT products and services have now collaborated with 20 android tablet manufacturers asking them to pre-install Office apps in these devices. This is a great achievement for Microsoft itself as it allows them to compete with the Android market. Moreover, Android users will benefit as well as they will now have a better user experience along with a number of apps and options that they have not been able to avail earlier.
Microsoft collaboration will thus allow the tablet manufacturers to install the application on tablets such as Microsoft Excel, Word, OneDrive, Skype, Powerpoint, OneNote on the upcoming devices.
The Corporate Vice President of Microsoft assured clients by stating, : “Today I'm excited to announce that 20 additional global and local OEM partners, including LG, Sony, Haier, Positivo and Wortman, will make Microsoft productivity applications and services available on their Android tablets. These 31 partners will offer Android tablets pre-installed with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, OneDrive and Skype in the near future. They will be available on a new LG tablet, and Sony will include them on their Xperia Z4 tablet in the next 90 days".
Microsoft growth is likely to grow with this collaboration resulting in a steady stream of revenues.
Facebook has launched its video calling service across the globe except a few countries.
Facebook Inc from today is coming up with a video calling feature update that will be available on its Messenger app is said to be released globally reports David Marcus, the Vice President of Messaging. According to him, the application’s new feature is now found everywhere across the globe. However, certain countries that still do not have access to this feature include United Arab Emirates, Saudia Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain.Previously, the feature was initially found in just 18 countries across the globe which comprises of United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Norway, Poland, Nigeria, Oman, Mexico, France and Greece. According to the data provided by the firm, the video calling feature has almost attracted 1 million individuals in just a matter of 2 days. This response was obtained after the public launch during the last week of April.This feature by Facebook is a great move where the social media giant has now provided a platform for users where they can communicate with one another irrespective of the distance. So now Facebook is in direct competition with companies like Skype, Viber, WhatsApp Calling that are already providing video calling features.David Marcus at this point of time is also welcoming feedback from customers regarding how they can improve their service and what more needs to be done before the global launch of this Facebook product. coming up with a video calling feature for iOS and Android is more of a follow up where initially “Voice Calling” was launched on Messenger in 2014."We’re happy to share we’ve now rolled out the capability globally, with the exception of a few countries we’re still working on improving quality for” stated Mr. David Marcus in a recent post.Facebook now is constantly working towards making its services better, thus for the same reason the company has partnered with WhatsApp. Both the companies are reportedly working on money transfer service along with a customer service experience for Facebook’s Messenger application. Facebook is constantly coming up with various applications and services that are likely to keep its diversified audience happy. Moreover, there are several rumors regarding the company to develop games for its Messenger platform as well.Hence, in a nutshell, Facebook is on the right track where it is working towards making this platform a one stop solution that caters to the needs of the diversified consumer base of the social media platform. Video calling will certainly enrich the experience of users on Messenger and will act as a mediator to minimizes distances even further.
