You'd certainly think so, based on some of the features in the upcoming Office 2010. By making a stripped-down version of the productivity suite available via the cloud, and free to Microsoft Live subscribers, Microsoft seemed to be taking Google Apps head-on. To keep the enterprise happy, they also plan on offering Office 2010 as a hosted subscription service and an on-premises platform; a large institution, after all, might like the savings that come with running a platform from the cloud, but no way they're letting their proprietary information flit off into the ether.
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