Microsoft Registers record sales of 30 Million MS Office 10 Copies Last Year

Microsoft observes the foremost anniversary of its Office 10 productivity suite prior to in the week, conceited that the software suit has by now sold over 30 million units. Sales record of 30 million units in a year and that to quantity of selling of one copy per second for whole year is a massive achievement for company like Microsoft.



Microsoft also declared free-to-use Web based Office Web Apps (OWA) and many of thme are seeing this as answer from Microsoft to Google Docs, which has more than 50 million active users. Talking about the words from his mind on this highlight marked by the company, Microsoft Corporate Vice President  Takeshi Numoto wrote in a blog post said that the numbers successfully answer reviewers who had been offensive to Microsoft's road when it came out with Microsoft Office 2010.

"They said we were moving in the incorrect direction by enduring to splurge in our desktop applications in addition to the cloud. Even more of late, there've been more forecasts of the PC's demise,” said Numoto.

“But the truth is based on the market results as shown  from our sales and approval data, people persist to love Office on the desktop and they're implementation Office in the cloud," he added.

Standing Cloud Pronounces Joint Venture with Extentech

Cloud based application management firm Standing Cloud has declared the corporation with Extentech to provide a private office platform in the cloud.

The companies revealed the Sheetster for Standing Cloud which is a cloud based docs editing platform that provides real-time editing and partnership to users which is available from practically anyplace devoid of including installing any software.



Sheetster, which is an open source tool, provided by Extentech comes with an Excel such as user interface that permit users to effortlessly upload and create editing their spreadsheets. The tools comes with support for Excel 97-2010 file formats and provides features such as charts, conditional formatting and data validation. Sheetser will be accessible on Standing Cloud which will offer back-up, monitoring and support services to Sheetster customers.

As the application is open source, developers are free to play around with the tool and generate convincing innovative add-ons for the software using the Sheetster APIs.

“As soon as I tried Standing Cloud I started working towards granting Sheetster on this convincing latest platform. At the present spreadsheet users and docs app developers are sheer minutes away from considerably inferior their barriers to entry - the exclusive club of the virtual private cloud is now open to all,” John McMahon, CEO, Extentech Inc, said in a statement.