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Office 365 subscriptions account for a quarter of suite's U.S. retail sales |
April 03, 2013
Office 365 has accounted for about 25 percet of all Office retail unit sales in the U.S. since its introduction two months ago, but the new “rent-not-own” strategy has not boosted overall sales, an analyst said today.
Stephen Baker of the NPD Group, a research firm that regularly surveys U.S. retailers for software sales figures, noted that the split between Office 2013 and Office 365 is running about 3:1 so far, in the former’s favor.
“Office 365 has accounted for about 25% of the [unit] volume,” said Baker today. “Office 2013 has had about three-fourths of the retail business.”
“At first blush, those numbers sound reasonably good,” said Wes Miller, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft. “But it’s kind of like Surface numbers. It’s hard to tell whether it’s good or not, since we don’t know what [Microsoft] was shooting for.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238077/Office_365_subscriptions_account_for_25_of_suite_s_U.S._retail_sales#tk.rss_all
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