In addition to Microsoft, there is no domestic operating system?

Recently, it was reported that the central government has asked various ministries and commissions to replace foreign operating systems with domestic operating systems at a rate of 15% per year. According to media reports, the recent academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Ni Guangnan, submitted a report to the top executives about the need to replace Microsoft with domestically produced operating systems. This report has been highly valued by the government's “top level”.

Previous reports also stated that some central agencies and subordinate departments had internally requested to stop using Office and instead use domestically-made office software. The report also stated that this is an important move in the implementation of information security after the Central Government requested the installation of the Windows 8 system in May. In addition, the related replacement work is not only related to the operating system, but also includes servers, chips, software, and other products.

From the point of view of the form, the trend of domestic languages ​​in computer operating systems has begun and is irreversible.

Domestically produced operating systems are basically all based on Linux distributions. Thanks to the strong community and development capabilities of Linux systems, domestic operating systems have little problem with reliability. However, the main problem lies in the fact that desktop applications are too small on Linux. In particular, there is no support for Microsoft OFFICE, which casts a shadow on the future of domestically produced operating systems.

The power of Microsoft Office makes the success of a desktop system seem to have its support.

In 1997, when Apple was just starting out, there was no browser or Office suite on the Mac. Bill Gates announced the injection of 150 million U.S. dollars at MacworldExpo that year, and provided the Mac system with a five-year Office suite, so that Apple's Mac eventually survived.

If Microsoft refused to develop Office for the Mac at the time, Apple's personal computers may even be at a dead end.

Although we cannot say that domestic systems without Microsoft Office cannot survive, the lack of Microsoft Office as the most important application software will certainly make the prospects of domestic systems unfavorable.

Market research company Forrester released a report showing that Microsoft's Office series has an unsurpassed dominance in the global office software market. Microsoft's Office 2010 accounted for 85% of the enterprise-level share, and Office 2013's market share rose with the deployment of more Windows 8 computers.

As the daily most important Windows Office office suite does not have a Linux version, Microsoft does not open the document standard for Office.

This allows Linux-based computers to select only Linux versions of office software. Microsoft does have a Linux department, but its main task is simply to ensure the compatibility of its virtual product Hyper-V on Linux systems and Windows systems.

As a loyal Linux user, IBM once planned to migrate Office to Linux, but Microsoft said that it did not participate in this activity and hinted that IBM will probably complete its project by emulating it.

As can be seen from these events, Microsoft did not intend to develop an Office suite for other platforms. Microsoft wants consumers who realize that the best Office suite is on the Windows platform.

The iPad has been ridiculed by Microsoft's Surface tablet as a tablet "computer" without a USB interface, and Surface is positioned to be able to run a complete Office portable productivity tool. In order to make the Office suite complete and complete on the SurfaceRT, Microsoft made a great compromise: Windows RT version of the Office application has retained the center of the mouse button operation, and thus let the RT version of the Office has obtained almost the same with the desktop version of outstanding Experience.

To put it another way, Microsoft's decision to make Surface such a compromise between the keyboard and the touchpad may be due to the existence of Office.

For Windows Phone devices, Office applications are also unique skills that they have left in the fierce competition in the market. Although the performance of the Windows Phone Office suite has been castrated to a certain extent because the performance of the mobile phone cannot be comparable to that of the tablet, Office is still an important reason why many consumers choose the Windows Phone.

Office suite is the most powerful and most popular office software and is one of Microsoft's best products. It is very unwise to share this advantage with your own competitors. Microsoft once competed for international standards for documents in 2005. Microsoft later released some of the document format standards for Office's Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. However, Microsoft's participation in open documents is more like a mess than a construction process. Microsoft does not directly store and manipulate documents. Instead of opening documents to standard documents, the two files are transferred to each other through a "translator". This actually adds complexity rather than complexity.

The launch of iOS and Android version of Office will not only harm the market status of Windows RT and Windows Phone, but will also harm Microsoft's marketing strategy. As we all know, Microsoft has long dominated the corporate user market, and Microsoft has always packaged its equipment into business partners. If the Office suite became standard on all systems, not only would business users' reliance on Microsoft be shaken, Microsoft's brand image would also have to be discounted.

In order to promote its own equipment, Microsoft has not released the iOS version of Office that has already been developed for a long period of time, until its own share in the mobile market has been low enough to be negligible, and will not be released when the market may be snatched by other families. Microsoft, which has gone to the mainstream, released the iOS version of Office. The Android version of Office is still out of sight.

In the desktop market, Microsoft is still in absolute dominance. Its market share exceeds 95%. At this time, Microsoft has no motivation or desire to develop Office for third parties.

Although there are some domestic alternatives to Microsoft Office, due to Microsoft's closed policy, it is impossible to completely interoperate with Office, and these companies have not had a good day.

The WPS produced by Kingsoft Corporation had almost monopolized the Chinese office software market before Microsoft Office entered China. However, when Microsoft really entered the Chinese market, WPS lost ground and now it can only make a living with compatible Office and imitation Office.

Kingsoft's WPS has almost the same interface as Microsoft Office, and its own WPS format is basically abandoned. Although it has done a good job in compatibility, due to complete imitation, it can be said that Kingsoft WPS has completely lost the market right to speak. Kingsoft's revenue for the first half of 2014 was RMB 1,426.1 million, of which gaming and security accounted for the bulk of the revenue, while WPS revenue was only RMB 132.4 million. Kingsoft relied on the rise of games to ensure that Jinshan WPS can still survive.

Another domestically produced office software is even more miserable. The revenue of Everbright Office comes from the government support. As the key supporter of the nuclear power base, it won only tens of millions of R&D support, but it barely survived in the capital chain in 2009 and had to accept foreign capital injection. As a result, the funds for nuclear high funds fell short and fell into bankruptcy liquidation.

In contrast, Microsoft's Office has been Microsoft's cash cow and contributed a large portion of Microsoft's profits. In this case, Microsoft has more resources to improve and promote Office, which leads to other players seem to be more and more away forever.

Although the arrival of the cloud era, many of the traditional office models began to be slowly broken, but in the office space, the inertia of Office is still very large, there is no other office software can be replaced in a short time.

In the absence of real killer support for office software, it is still a long way to go before the domestic operating system really opens up.