Microsoft Office 2010 Online Version For Free That'd Probably Kill Google Docs

Microsoft is definitely taking on Google and their revolutionary model
of offering most of their applications for free and online. After
announcing Bing (and seeing great results in just one month), the new
Windows 7 RTM build yesterday, today Steve Ballmer came up with an
announcement just as shocking - apparently the company is going to
offer a Microsoft Office 2010 online version for free. And for the first
time in a long long time, we're taking Microsoft serious …

If Steve is for real, Google Docs should be scared starting next year
when the Microsoft Office 2010 free version is going to be available
online. Of course the free version is not going to pack all the features
from the paid version — as Microsoft is making quite a lot of
money from selling MS Office licenses — but still it's a good
idea. Apparently there won't be PowerPoint video editing or Word image
editing, but you can't say that Google Docs has them, either.

Even though it looks like a very good marketing strategy for now, if
MSFT fails to deliver the Office 2010 free version it's pretty clear
that users will feel misleaded and would lose their trust with the
company. It's a simple judgement that makes us believe that Ballmer Co
are actually working on something big from their well paid desks.

It looks like everything may have been caused by Google's announcement
last week when they said that a Chrome operating system is under
development. We so wonder what Microsoft is going to do next to
counterattack the giant Google is turning into.

To be continued …