>> No argument with that! Except, alas, life just isn't that way. The mighty MS marketing machine is excellent at selling Office.
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>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.
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Don't ask me - I think the subscription model, as envisioned by MS, STINKS! But the answer is probably GREED.

>>I'll bet, in fact, that there are more systems with ONLY office installed than there are with other packaged products installed.
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>I bet not. I bet more people have an HTML browser than Office. Thats how I'll send my documents.

Except IE is not a "packaged product". Since many browsers are free I should have said purchased package products.