Google Docs charge $50 annually per user for businesses but is offered a free of charge to personal users. Microsoft office 2010 on the other hand ranges from a one-time fee of $119 to $499 per license (an amount paid again upon the release and purchase of subsequent versions) depending on the bundle configuration purchased. as web-based software grow in popularly with the emergency of cloud computing the number of competitors and intensity of competition could seriously damage Microsoft's software dominance. Richard Williams an analyst with cross research say "Google is not the threat that it will be once the virtual desktop becomes a no-brainier that's the time Microsoft really has to worry about