That's a lot of fancy words for trying to say their products don't look like Google Docs. But I think that's just you overestimating the simplicity of Google Do

That's a lot of fancy words for trying to say their products don't look like Google Docs. But I think that's just you overestimating the simplicity of Google Docs and underestimating how dominating Microsoft Office is in the American business landscape. In the US go apply for an job, an actual job, in a small office and they'll ask you three things: can you type? in Word? when can you start? They've printed hundreds of books to teach you how to use Office. The main interface of office has stayed relatively the same from 1994, 1998, 2000, 2004, XP and it is by far the standard in small to medium businesses and enterprise. This isn't about style, it's about utility and functionality that people recognize. And this SaaS strategy is even more fundamentally important because they can now finally achieve their BackOffice dreams started in the 90's. Complete service backend (SQL, Exchange, systems management, ISA, IIS) to power Excel, Acess, and Outlook and charge you globs of money each month for it.