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King said he could imagine Amazon at least considering the idea of moving into the office suite marketplace as competition in cloud computing stiffens and AWS growth appears to be reaching a plateau. Entering the fray would be difficult for anyone, including Amazon, but the company has a history of pursuing counter-intuitive strategies." " The list of challengers to Microsoft Office is pretty long but their results have been anything but pretty. "I've heard rumors but initially discounted them," Charles King, principal analyst for research firm, Pund-IT, told ITPro in an email reply. Several IT analysts, however, said that while they are generally skeptical about such plans by Amazon, it would at least be possible that the company would take such a leap into another new direction. "AWS has also told some large corporate customers it's considering bundling these apps with its recently launched Chime video conferencing apps into a new productivity app suite that will compete with Google G Suite and Microsoft Office 365," a source who allegedly had been briefed on the plans told The Information.Īmazon did not respond to several email inquiries from ITPro seeking comments about its potential plans for an office competitor in the marketplace that would take on Microsoft, Google, LibreOffice and others. Rumors about such a development have been swirling for several months, according to a February report by The Information, which said that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been " working on upgrades to its WorkMail email-calendar app and its WorkDocs file storage-collaboration app to make them more attractive to corporate customers," according to details provided anonymously by two people who do business with Amazon. Amazon may be looking to expand beyond its huge and powerful music and video services, e-commerce and cloud service provider businesses to take on Microsoft in an entirely new direction by creating its own version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite.