At long last, you can export your documents en masse from Google Docs.

While you’ve been able to download one file at a time from Google Docs forever, Google Operating System is reporting that you can now download the files in batches in a .ZIP compressed file.

This is a major step forward for the application as people have often worried about their important documents being lost on the service due to the nature of it being a cloud computing solution.  Now that you can download them in large batches, there should be no reason to fear this any longer and not look at Docs as a viable alternative to commercial solutions such as Microsoft Office.