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Steve Ballmer is convinced that Google Apps is nothing to worry about — according to Steve(24 minutes in), “you can’t even put a footnote in a document”. Perhaps what happened directly after he said that is precisely why Microsoft should be worried. About 2 days after Steve downplayed any kind of competition that may be coming from Docs, Google added footnote support. The agility, and horsepower that Google has behind it is something that companies — even Microsoft — should be wary of, and definitely shouldn’t take lightly. It’s true that Google Docs hasn’t yet challenged Microsoft as much as I’m sure they would like, but don’t count Google out just yet. This is how I see it playing …

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