GOOGLE TARGETS MICROSOFT:

Google Apps Premier Edition, to be unveiled Thursday, features online e-mail, calendaring, messaging and talk applications as well as a word processor and a spreadsheet. The launch follows Google’s introduction of a similar suite aimed at consumers last August. The new Premier Edition, however, offers enhancements aimed squarely at corporate environments.

I’ve used Google Documents quite a bit, and it’s not bad – if it just supported footnoting, it would be awesome. I’ve used the spreadsheet program a couple of times, too, and it seems fine. If I were a company, though, I think I’d worry about having all my important documents on someone else’s servers.