I don't buy this argument. In my experience OpenOffice has no problem interoperating with MS Office's formats, but MS Office is simply a far better program. The

I don't buy this argument. In my experience OpenOffice has no problem interoperating with MS Office's formats, but MS Office is simply a far better program. The reason I use MS Office is that's it's better enough to warrant the price compared to the free OpenOffice, and not any other reason.