Big companies are starting to ditch Microsoft Office for Google Apps. If this becomes a trend, Microsoft's second huge cash cow will be under immediate threat.

Big companies are starting to ditch Microsoft Office for Google Apps. If this becomes a trend, Microsoft's second huge cash cow will be under immediate threat. The IT guys removed Office from all of our computers at work and replaced it with OpenOffice last year. I would imagine that this is happening in a lot of places. Between OpenOffice and Google Docs, you have 90% of what you need to be productive, at a cost of $0. The other 10% costs you a couple hundred per seat. I bet a lot of companies are doing the math.