I think the main keyword out of your rant is "My life...". Many small businesses or mom & pop shops may have benefited from Windows+Office (specifically Excel,

I think the main keyword out of your rant is "My life...". Many small businesses or mom & pop shops may have benefited from Windows+Office (specifically Excel, Word, and Access). They can also purchase Office 365 and have tight integration with their one and only laptop to run their small business. Sharepoint Online + Office 2010 are extremely powerful and beneficial for those that don't have their own IT department. Sure, people can keep pointing out Salesforce, Basecamp, Highrise, some random CRM, some random Time & Expense stuff, shopify and so on but if you can get SP Online + Office 2010 for less than $25/month... that's hard to beat. http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/office365/compare-plans.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/office365/compare-plans.aspx