Microsoft does, of course, have considerable detractors who scoff at its seeming inability to excel in anything outside of its monopoly operating system and suite of Office products.

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His next challenge: how to stoke growth in the Office product line--Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint--when his division already has a market share so large (400 million users) that research firms Gartner and IDC don't bother to track it.

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Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) does, of course, have considerable detractors who scoff at its seeming inability to excel in anything outside of its monopoly operating system and suite of Office products.

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Office 2007 (which includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint in the basic version users must pay more for Outlook) is also improved.

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Having Microsoft Office Mobile built-in means using Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote from your phone to create, edit and view documents.

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Ask your office information-technology guru for a lesson in Excel or PowerPoint.

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