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I agree entirely - they are pushing themselves into a "change for change's sake" scenario. The same applies to their other cash cow - Office. Office 2007 has s

I agree entirely - they are pushing themselves into a "change for change's sake" scenario. The same applies to their other cash cow - Office. Office 2007 has some improvements I like... Powerpoint and Excel have some usability improvements... but on the whole.. Word for me is still Word as it was in Word 2000. There is nothing in 2007 that is that compelling. For many people it's probably Word 98, or Word 2.0. Apple has avoided this by keeping OS X and the evolving it. This model seems to be working much better for now.

gaius 18y ago
Whereas with Apple, if you ask "why should I upgrade from Tiger to Leopard" the answer is simply, "Time Machine". Or with Sun, why should I upgrade from Sol8 to 10, the answer is "dtrace and zones". MS really needs a snappy comeback like that. The most complex single document I've ever worked on was my MSc dissertation, 30,000 words, lots of cross-references, figures, footnotes, etc etc. I can't remember if I used Word 97 or 2000, but it was more than sufficient for the task. I could have done it in Word 6 or Word 5.1, even. It truly baffles me why people (even within MS itself) want to keep upgrading it.