Hosted, and generally free, office applications are being touted as a big threat to Microsoft's dominance of the desktop, but a survey of US Internet consumers found that free desktop based office apps like OpenOffice are what Microsoft should fear most. For now at least.

If you could pay US $70 to get a one-year copy of Office Home and Student Edition, and Internet security package OneCare, which you could install on three PCs in the home – which needs to be renewed every year – would you?