> No argument with that! Except, alas, life just isn't that way. The mighty MS marketing machine is excellent at selling Office.

Then why the subscirption model? Why those upgrade deadlines? They were doing pretty excellent before they offered every feature and tehn some that people want, and before everyone owned it.

>I'll bet, in fact, that there are more systems with ONLY office installed than there are with other packaged products installed.

I bet not. I bet more people have an HTML browser than Office. Thats how I'll send my documents.