Disruptive is a word used to describe some of the new Web 2.0 services and office productivity tools. The masters of disruptive technology and services are once again sending ripples over the Web with the announcement of a suit of applications for domains. Discussions over the Web are already very lively and the trend is to compare the suit to the world’s most widely used office productivity tools.

Whether the world’s most popular search engine is trying to compete head on with the world’s most widely used office productivity tools only time will tell, but what we see is a world of change. Changes are taking place in office productivity tools. There are good volumes of online tools available that offer specialized solutions and most of them are in the form of Web services and Web applications rather than desktop applications. The path is clear for office productivity tools: the path of software applications as Web services.