Google is going right for the Microsoft jugular with this new deal they have with Sun. Apparently no one had really come up and specifically stated their plans but Austrailian Sun spokesman Paul O'Connor he confirmed that Google will be launching free spreadsheet and word processing web services, directly gunning for Microsoft's bread and butter (or at least a big chunk of it).

O'Connor states:

 

At the moment most people are used to having to pay for software packages, but at the end of the day, the value is in the content and services – not in the software itself...