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But Word has competitors like GSuite so it cannot be completely complacent. People are making these buying decisions constantly.



It's had competitors forever. The lockin is from UI, file formats, compatibility generally (e.g. functions), scripting / existing infra around it, and its utter dominance in the market ("nobody got fired for buying Microsoft")




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