We've been touting Google Apps for a long time as an Office-alternative. Now that it can go fully offline, the time might be right to make the move.

Here's the story, courtesy of Read/Write Web:

For now, Google Docs on Gears will only support editing of documents -- you can't create new ones -- and is currently only available on the word processor app. Deployment of offline support for the spreadsheet and presentation applications will come later, and will be read-only to begin with.

Check out this video introduction to Google Gears (the offline piece) working with Google Docs: