My day-job went through a similar exercise...and they even got us excited by proposing a pilot where some numbers of employees would use google apps for a couple of months, while some other employees would pilot Microsoft's online offering. Then the higher-ups would garner feedback, and pick the one that most thought was productive, etc. We actually never got to test google apps, the pilot got killed. Word is that the MS office online solution will be implemented...to which i reacted like you stated, "Morons in charge"...and then someone in the office reminded me that sometimes in corporate world, tech decisions are not always about functionality but about existing (and potential) license agreements. Maybe the company's corporate software vendor or microsoft sales team offered a financial deal that was overall better (our corporate laptops run windows OS) for the company.