Jeff Raikes, a soft-spoken former Nebraska farm boy, masterminded Microsoft's $10 billion cash cow -- its Office productivity software. The cow has been looking a bit feeble recently, but Raikes has an ambitious plan to enliven it. Office sales were essentially flat in the fiscal year ended June 30, putting Microsoft's future on the line. About a third of the software giant's revenue in the fiscal year came from Office, the word processing, e-mail, spreadsheet and presentations package that is a staple of the workplace. Office is Microsoft's ``other'' monopoly alongside the Windows operating system.
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