Nothing beats watching two giant space Krackens go toe-to-toe in a battle for the galaxy. And now we get to watch it happen live as Google fixes it’s single eye, rimmed in fire, on the Blue Towers of Microsoft with their newest subscription-based Office suite.

Google has been offering a free version of its online software suite called Google Apps for the past six months. More than 100,000 small businesses and hundreds of universities nationwide are using the free service, Google said.

The fee-based version, Google Apps Premier Edition, includes five times more e-mail storage — 10 gigabytes per e-mail box — as well as a guarantee that all services will be available 99.9 percent of the time with around-the-clock technical support.

Google also is adding mobile access to e-mail accounts through the BlackBerry devices that tether workers to their offices.

So what happens when two of the largest software companies known to mankind fail at winning the entire market and can’t buy the other out like they’re used to doing? Temporarily cheap or free software may be in the works! That always seems to be the next logical step.