Google continues to push their online software-as-a-service business model, in clear competition with MS Office.
So many interesting dynamics here:
1) Microsoft versus Google. I'm not sure if either would admit it, but this is another chapter in a pretty heavy competition. I wonder if Microsoft will respond to this competition the way they have responded to most: by taking their competitor's idea, making it their own, and using their existing foothold and integration with other MS apps to muscle out the competition.
Microsoft already kind of did this to Google once, in the desktop search. Vista has a far-improved integrated desktop (and beyond the desktop) search tool that takes some of the wind out of the sails for Google Desktop.
2) Google's direct-sales philosophy versus Microsoft's partner- and channel-centric philosophy. Foxtrot is a Microsoft partner, so of course there's some belief here in how they do things. However, I haven't drunk quite enough MS Kool-aid to believe there *can't* be a better answer. Google really has no formal partnership or channel opportunities for little ol' Foxtrot, so probably the only thing for me to do for Foxtrot right now is to watch and be aware.
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