OK, I would never put valuable data or my email on Google (I don't trust them), but what MS appears to ignore is that Google apps supply enough of what people want. It's not so-bare-it's-unbearable Works, it's rich enough to get normal work done, whereas every-feature-you-may-think-of-and-each-new-version-hides-the-stuff-you-really-need MS Office bloatware is getting a tad heavy on both the wallet and the system.

Given the iPhone's anaemic wait-for-everything computing resources I think MS iOffice will be fun to watch.

If you like watching paint dry, that is.

Goodness. Buy yourself a dictionary.

Microsoft would be wasting their time making a special Office for iphone, after all the next version of Office will have a web interface anyway, as reported by the Reg recently.

April Fool's Day is OVAH - O-V-A-H OVAH!

I got to play with the browser based Office Live during one of Microsoft's Live @ Edu demonstrations and the really good big - it looks and plays like the Office of old. Even if most people never use Office's full range of features, Live scores highly because it looks like the program they've been using up until now.

Google Apps are very nicely done, work well and play nicely, but IMHO they don't look as professional as the Office Live suite.