This is just willfully ignorant. If you have Exchange, you probably have Active Directory. You can update Office various ways. I updated 1000 computers from Office 2003 to 2010 without touching any of them. I can also push an update to all our computers only downloading the patches once, not with 1000 computers downloading the same thing all at once.
I haven't seen Google Docs mass controls, but with AD and Office I was able to fix a PowerPoint video acceleration issue with a subset of our machines. Otherwise I'd have to change a setting for every person who logged into these particular machines. I realize that I may not have had this problem with Google Docs. However, we've found that we can't replicate what is done with PowerPoint in Google Docs.