<p>If you've thought that Microsoft might have serious competition for the office suite business, you can end that thought. It's now clear that Microsoft Office not only dominates today, but will tomorrow, and far into the foreseeable future.</p><p>Microsoft's biggest competitor for office suites is Google Apps, and Computerworld reports that Google Apps is struggling, especially in the enterprise market where it hoped to make big gains. The author of the article, Juan Carlos Perez, interviewed businesses and analysts, who said that Google Apps had fallen behind Microsoft Office and other rivals. He reports that today, seven years after innovative Google Apps was released: Complacency has diluted that innovative spirit, and Google Apps now trails competing suites from IBM, Cisco and Microsoft in areas like enterprise social networking (ESN) and unified communications (UC).</p><p>For example, the healthcare company Schumacher Group has been using Google Apps for four years, but is now seriously looking at switching to Office 365, which includes online versions of Exchange, SharePoint, Lync and Office. Schumacher CIO Douglas Menefee said: "Microsoft has made great strides with Office 365. The sleeping giant awoke two years ago...We have seen a major shift in the maturity of Microsoft's cloud-based products. They seem to be gaining a lot of traction."</p><p>Analyst Zeus Kerravala from ZK Research points out that Google Apps isn't as fully featured as Microsoft's offerings because it can't act as a PBX replacement as can Lync from Microsoft. In addition, Google Docs lags behind the power features offered by Microsoft Office.</p><p><a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/desktop-apps/23055/game-over-microsoft-office-killing-google-apps-and-anemic-iworks">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://techpinions.com/iwork-vs-office-apple-chooses-microsoft-faces-a-dilemma/24599">iWork vs. Office: Apple Chooses, Microsoft Faces a Dilemma</a> (Tech.pinions)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dg86EHpECXOvKuME8Po67kRAylBkM&ned=us">2 additional articles.</a></p>