In the past week-plus, Apple announced plans to make its iWork office suite free for iOS users, and Box has fielded a preview of its own collaborative note-taking technology. On cue, many tech pundits began sounding the “Microsoft Office is in trouble” horn, yet again.

Some seem to have forgotten (or maybe just have never heard of?) another Microsoft offering that is is key to the cross-platform office wars. That competitive technology is Office Web Apps.