Google’s always up to something, but that flurry of activity you may have noticed the past few months has been Google attempting to drive its cloud computing applications into businesses. Now they’ve set their eye on becoming an enterprise player.InfoWorld’s Tom Kaneshige takes an in-depth look at Google and its collision course with Microsoft in the cloud, and concludes Google Apps will be hard pressed to dislodge Microsoft Office. “Google Apps is a bunch of free software with very limited functionality hosted at Google’s datacenters and accessible over the Internet,” says Kanishige. “I don’t think anybody is going to confuse Google Apps with Microsoft Office,” concurs Gartner analyst Tom Austin “Google is trying to outflank Microsoft Office, not undercut it.”It seems not only is Google Apps not ready, but companies aren’t either. “Although Google Apps may carve out niches,” Kaneshige writes, “it’s unlikely that basic applications in the cloud will play a major role in the way giants of industry conduct business. Imagine sensitive business documents being shared in the cloud without comprehensive enterprise controls.”How do you rate Google Apps’ chances? Cloud ComputingSaaS