Google is prepping a PowerPoint-ish presentation tool to finish off what Paul Kedrosky coined an anti-Office suite. The big question is what's the end game here?

I'll leave the code and intricacies of the file conversions to the folks much better equipped. But let's fast forward to the end game, which appears to be Google's plan to eat away at Microsoft's best business. While Microsoft's Vista business is nice, Office–also known as the bulk of the Microsoft Business Division–is better. For the quarter ending Dec. 31, the business division had revenue of $3.5 billion and operating income of $2.17 billion. No other division came close to that performance.

For context, Microsoft's Office business delivered more in revenue and operating income than Google did in the fourth quarter. Google had fourth quarter revenue of $3.21 billion and operating income of $931 million.

Simply put, Google is a fly on the elephant that is Microsoft right now. But all Google has to do is make Microsoft defend the Office business. If Microsoft has to respond to Google Docs–it doesn't yet–the software giant won't be able to focus on search and keyword advertising. Even a company with Microsoft's cash pile has limited resources.

Full article: blogs.zdnet.com