Underlying Shift Away From MS Office Suite

Over the past few months I am seeing more and more of the top internet people or should I say the early adopters switching from Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel and Outlook) to more cloud computing applications.

It is happening slowly but perhaps people like me that are not early adopters but perhaps 2nd or 3rd tier adopters are considering leaving our M$ software that we have grown up with and are now looking at solutions like Google Docs.

Once people like me make the shift and can become productive after the change, we normally tell people like our parents that might consider changing if the benefits are large.

I think many of us think M$ as being like the devil because of their monopoly, however we could never leave because it worked so well and there was nothing else to really go to that would be worth the change. I think a lot of us would like the drop the chains that M$ has had on us for the past two decades, but it is not so easy even when the other solutions are free.

I think with services like Twitter.com we are all seeing a change where getting information out there as fast as you can is a good thing. Using cloud applications we can collaborate better and get things done faster.

To be honest I think I write in WordPress far more than Word right now. I also use WordPress more than I do Dreamweaver lately.

I am not saying anything new here, but what I am saying is the change is interesting to watch. For me it might be 6 months to a year before I make the switch.