> I think the key thing here is that MS Word had the features most people need back in Win3 days (possibly earlier?). That's a very narrow view of what people

> I think the key thing here is that MS Word had the features most people need back in Win3 days (possibly earlier?). That's a very narrow view of what people need. Children at home these days "type" essays into Word by dictating as a first-party feature. This is a pretty recent step forward -- in the past it used to be a very expensive third-party add-on with much less accuracy. Good, scalable multi-user document editing has changed the way students and even workers take notes in classrooms and workshops. Again, a fairly recent phenomenon (although Word still isn't as good as Google Docs here -- c'mon Microsoft, keep up).