Microsoft is not afraid of Google office applications

Although Google's text and spreadsheet service has become more user-friendly, the Microsoft Office office software development team thinks that such web-based applications cannot appeal to companies.

Antoine Leblond, head of the Office development team, said: " When it comes to executing important tasks and monitoring how businesses run, they will face greater barriers ."

While Leblond undertakes "traditional" software upgrades such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, his colleague Kurt DelBene will develop new SharePoint Web and server-based programs. The new Office suite will be available next week with the Windows Vista operating system to form the flagship card that restores Microsoft's power.

The company believes that its new web services will be the next to the software installed on the PC - a different view than the "software service" that Google advocates for development.

And Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, has abandoned the goal of competing with Office and said the company will focus on simple applications and serve common users and small businesses.