[poutrathor]

I want to nitpick the point here : "And Office suite wise, it took Google about 15 years of pouring money into Google Docs to be almost as good as the MS offering"

From my point of view, it's more : "Google screwed up their online, instantaneous multi-user tool so bad that Microsoft had the time to pour billions into Office-Online-365-whatever-name and now you have Word & Excel in the browser and Google lost their edge".

Without any knowledge of the matter, just looking from outside, Google had the money and the talent to get there but not the focus and the drive.

Silly example : Coloring a text in "Google Docs": the icon is black and white. You can't make that up. Impossible to find it every time I need it and I am using it for 2 months now. Every little detail is like that, showing lack of care for the users.