What Microsoft's New Product Says About the Way We Work

Microsoft's Office software, like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, have long been workplace staples. Office's dominance has held sway even in the cloud computing era: 85% of Fortune 500 firms are using at least one form of [f500link]Microsoft[/f500link] cloud software, the company says. But software from productivity startups like Slack, which enables workers to chat and share files with one another, pose a threat to Microsoft's grip on the so-called enterprise market.