The future is in the cloud. Every traditional software company is pushing cloud services over programs you actually install, and even Microsoft, which formally completed its new, cloud-based Office 365 package in February, has included cloud features in Office 2013, its new desktop suite.

For starters, Office 2013 saves your work to SkyDrive cloud storage by default. The new desktop suite also ties in deeply with the browser-based Office Web Apps. These are notable steps in a cloud-based direction, but given the overwhelming adoption of Google Drive in the workplace—it’s the platform of choice at PCWorld—it’s a bit curious that Microsoft updated its desktop suite at all. 

Indeed, isn’t shuttling Word documents over file servers and email a bit passé? 

The bottom line is that Microsoft knows its customers still need (or at least want) traditional, “hit-a-button-and-install-this-to-my-programs-folder” software. But who, exactly, are the holdouts who refuse to make the switch to Google Drive, Office 365, or even Microsoft’s Office Web Apps? Who’s still using a local copy of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint exclusively, and why? 

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