Google is set to acquire DocVerse for $25M. DocVerse makes a plug-in capable of helping Microsoft Office users collaborate online (realistically, making it a dirt-cheap competitor to Microsoft’s overly complicated Groove offering).
It’s not hard to see how Google will use this functionality. By making it freely available to Microsoft Office users, Google can slowly get them used to the Google Docs environment, until they are ready to use it all the time.
