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This is Google trying to market Google applications, aka Team Edition.

http://www.google.com/apps

This is where Google wants you to end up using.

http://www.google.com/a

The adoption takes time (especially for the majority of MS Office or offline users) but surely Google is going to make this tougher for competition, which I think only Zoho will have a good chance. There was a time when I waited for Yahoo to upgrade its Yahoo Notepad function within Yahoo Mail to a full blown online document editing application — but it was Godot-ish.

What transpired was I shifted to Gmail and, by now, most of my documents are already in Google cloud. But here’s a request to Google that may even further widen the Google moat:

To Google: Further integrate Google Docs to Gmail by providing a function to directly save a document in Gmail. 

Here’s a sample shot.

This is not saving an attached word document to Google Docs, a feature already provided. This is saving a Google Doc when you press “C” or compose in Gmail.

Well, this is also valid for Zoho, which is currently testing Zoho Mail in private beta. But I don’t have access to Zoho Mail as yet.

Oh, btw, going back to Google Apps, here’s an overview of the Team Edition.