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Funny that I am using hotmail (a MS related site)! First of all, a lot has changed since these articles were written. What does everyone think of Vista? The David Pogue video was hilarious! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYqA83sitz8&eurl= Now, about Microsoft Office...I think that Excel is actually a pretty good program, but I HATE MS Word!! It is always doing things that I don't ask it to do! I tried turning everything off, but obviously I'm too stupid to figure it out (I guess I need to take a class to figure out how to use it fully). It sets margins without me asking, it thinks I want to do things I don't. Why can't they have a "Turn off all the Crap" button so that I can tell Word how I want my document to look? Appleworks does that easily. I highlight the section of the document that I want to affect, and then set the margin (or whatever) and it does what I ask (I never took a class on AW). Then when I go to the next part of my document, it's still exactly how I had set it previously. Wow, what a concept!! That said, MS Office is still the giant in the business world. I made the decision to buy the version for Mac because all my colleagues are windows users and they couldn't read my documents correctly. Funny, I had no problems reading theirs...but the learning curve for MS Word has been surprisingly "UN-Mac-like". I am used to having creative control, not some company that dictates what they think I should do. It bothers me. Guess what? Microsoft has gotten into the online music game and "created" the Zune. Umm...there may be some good ideas in there somewhere, but as usual, they assume too much control. Microsoft wants to control how we use the Zune, the way they want to control everything else they end up botching. That's why they embed their programs so deeply in their Kernel. They do not want anyone to go outside of "Good Papa's" eyeshot. That is not good for creativity and makes the OS bog down. Too bad they are like that. They have so much power and money they could completely transform the computer industry. Papa Bill could really use some more insightful creative people on his team that could help advise him in the matters of creativity, in my humble opinion. Many of the people that work for MS are so smart that they sometimes forget that stability and creativity are the life-blood of a good company. Everything is always about the almight dollar. Think Different.