Making more of these consumer services available to Apps accounts would be a welcome move for Kari Barlow, assistant vice president at Arizona State University's Technology Office, which has about 60,000 unique weekly users of the Apps education edition.

"I'd like to see more of the applications available to the general public also available to the Apps educational domain," Barlow said in a phone interview, mentioning Blogger in particular.

Dave Girouard, president of Google's Enterprise unit, which is in charge of Apps, raised expectations for such a move in April when he promised -- via Twitter, no less -- that Google would make available all of its services to Apps users.

"We're working to give you access to every damn Google service with a Google Apps account -- yep every damn one of them. Um, maybe not Lively," he wrote in a Twitter on Tuesday, referring at the end to the 3-D virtual world service Google recently.

Last week, Girouard promised that Docs will get so much better in the next 12 months that its word processor, spreadsheet and presentation applications will be "night and day from what they are today."