I recently installed a new version of Office on my dad's machine and was shocked to see that you can start using Office pretty much right away, even while it's

I recently installed a new version of Office on my dad's machine and was shocked to see that you can start using Office pretty much right away, even while it's still installing. The more complicated features (e.g., making charts) are locked out, but will be available as those bits are streamed in. Basically it bootstraps a bare bones document reader and advanced features become available as they are downloaded. Awesome, but really brings to light how poorly MS handles advertising.