Office goes virtually free

I think I'm up to week 13 in my haphazard learning journey. Online applications and tools. We certainly don't need to be tied to a PC any more or even carry around all our electronic bits and bobs on a memory stick. The internet can store almost all our files for us and offer us all the software we need to create and manipulate our information. I imagine some of our clients using the internet are enjoying being able to create, access and use their documents without needing to access our network or even save copies onto a stick.
Computerworld recently compared the word processing, spreadsheet and presentation tools of three of the big names (Google Docs, Zoho and ThinkFree) to see if they are genuine competitors of MS Office. The results are interesting. It seems that these online applications 'have gotten good enough' to be of real use in comparison with MS Office. Guess we can all give Bill the flick now...