Beginning this week, Google will rely on native load/save capabilities taken from QuickOffice (startup they purchased years ago) in order to roundtrip Microsoft Office documents on Google docs servers, in addition to their own Word/Excel/Powerpoint file formats that keep getting sophisticated over time.

By going the Microsoft native way, Google ensures that a number of businesses out there can start relying on Google plain and simple in order to edit their documents without having to think or worry whether they will be preserved.

It is how Google can kill the biggest Microsoft cash cow still in existence right now.

I shall remind readers that one of my Office related developer tools, diffopc, was purchased by QuickOffice back in 2007. This tool was, and still is, the most powerful diff tool for Office file formats, with no competition in sight. I am glag to learn that QuickOffice first got purchased by Google, a sure sign that QuickOffice was doing good work on that front, and is now in full force to kill, not Microsoft Office file formats (that comes in the future though), but kill the biggest Microsoft cash cow to date which is Microsoft Office.

And I like to believe that my software was and still is a force in accomplishing this goal. I like the idea that I am killing Microsoft, albeit indirectly.