[karajorma]

Yep. It's the old type a letter, backspace, type again, backspace twice, type again, swear loudly at the PC to put the ****ing letter where the damn cursor is! that gets on my nerves.

[SadisticSid]

http://www.openoffice.org/

I use it... it works, it's free, it has a pretty decent interface. 

It's slow on my Linux laptop and grinds to a halt when it encounters some encoded characters it doesn't expect. Like the bloody pound sign on an ebay sales CSV. OpenOffice is great in principle but still premature in implementation. But on the plus side, it can open DOCX files with a little tweaking, which is more than can be said for Office 2003/4. I haven't had the (dis)pleasure of using 2007 yet.

[DiabloRojo]

Office 2007 is one of the best things Microsoft has ever done. 

figures there'd always be someone to crack on microsoft, regardless what they do.

Oh yeah, best thing ever...

Tell that to the 25 or so support techs that have to listen to the *****ing and moaning about '07 from about a thousand people a month, on top of the normal 5000 calls they get.

Then tell that to the 50 or so programmers that now have to rip apart the latest version of the software package they released 6 months ago because of the Word and Excel integration it uses to create the legal documents is now complete and utter ****e, rather than working on the NEW package they've been trying to complete for the past year and a half (ironically, cross-platform and based on Open Office).

Then tell that to me who has to deal with logistics of getting it paid for, installed and working on our terminal servers in the meantime to shut the users up so they can finally open documents created or re-saved into the useless docx format.

Isn't it great!?

Yeah, Microsoft can pretty much sit on a macroshaft for all I care.
Welcome to the IT industry!  Someone once asked why Admins are short-tempered, ill-mannered jerks.  The Admin simply said, "Microsoft."