Microsoft takes notice as more people use free Google Docs

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Some big companies are starting to move their spreadsheets, word-processing and other productivity programs off of PCs and on to the Web.

About 20% of respondents to a study by researcher IDC say Google's Google Docs offering is widely used in their organization, up from 5.8% a little more than a year and a half ago.

This good news for Google has not gone unnoticed at Microsoft.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/20...icrosoft_N.htm

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I'm not surprised. Microsoft is trying really hard to pull some market share away from Google, but it's an uphill battle.

Here is an example of this.

A bit older, but here's another article about the struggle between the two corporations.

I'm trying to remember where I read it, but I want to say somewhere in a recent (within the last two months) issue of Businessweek, the opinion is that there will be a big three way battle between apple, microsoft, and google eventually.