"Microsoft would be incredibly stupid to tell all their customers that they now have to use web versions." Yes, they would. But they'd also be stupid NOT to do

"Microsoft would be incredibly stupid to tell all their customers that they now have to use web versions." Yes, they would. But they'd also be stupid NOT to do what Google Docs is doing. 1) Offer a web-based set of apps that do most of what the desktop versions do and also facilitate sharing. 2) Make it easy to tie those in with desktop versions of Office (see Google Cloud Connect). This lets them capture the desktop-only people, the web-only people, and those stuck in the middle. If they don't do this, they're pushing everyone but the desktop-only people away. The question is whether they will do it well enough to keep their customers, or whether their hesitance to lose the OS lock-in will make them do a hemigluteal job on their web app, in which case people will go with Google Docs or Zoho anyway.