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You apparently read a lot more into what I wrote than was actually there.

"Why the hell would Microsoft be scared of OpenOffice/Wordperfect/Smartsuite?"

Because if we have a universal and open document format then people won't have to use Word. Not everybody who uses Microsoft Office really needs to, but because of the document format it makes it better for those who have to interchange documents.

"IBM has given up on Smartsuite, Wordperfect is limping along being pushed with minimal investment by a company who seems to have gone down the cheap-shareware, bargin basement software market, and the remaining one is OpenOffice.org which is a slow and bloated piece of crap which lacks the features I want in an Office suite."

I won't disagree a bit with most of what you said there. For you Microsoft Office maybe the best choice, but that doesn't make it the best choice for everybody. Some would rather use WordPerfect and some would rather use OpenOffice. If all office suites used a single unified open format then that choice wouldn't be so hard to make and would squarely put the focus back on making the best damn office suite available. And yes I still think Microsoft would rule the roost.

"Heck, that doesn't even start to cover the share ugliness of using OpenOffice.org when compared to Office 2007 Pro; the interface of OpenOffice.org is hideous, the documentation is attrocious in regards to how to get things working."

Your opinion. Not everybody likes the way the new Office 2007 looks. Some might think it's hideous.

"To say that you can easily replace Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.org by simply dropping it in, without any problems, quite frankly, either you delusional or the organisations you have worked for are so small the number of employees could all fit into a telephone booth with enough room for a BBQ, DJ mixing table and a disco ball."

I never said that. And you were either really frustrated by what I said or you suck as writing. Doesn't IE at least have spell checking?