After foreseeing that the acquisition of SoftGrid technology was a clear sign Microsoft was gearing up to deliver a subscriptions-based, hosted model for Office, Randall C. Kennedy is ready with another bold prediction: Microsoft’s Streaming Office will clobber Google Apps. In fact, Kennedy’s prepared to stick his neck out and say “Streaming Office will … eventually drive the search giant out of the hosted applications business altogether.“Faced with a decision between a watered-down, limited, web-dependent pseudo-suite and the full power and richness of Microsoft Office, users will flock to the Microsoft camp.” Remember where you read it first! Cloud ComputingSaaS