I stopped installing office on my PCs about 10 years ago, for the first few years replaced with OpenOffice/LibreOffice and more recently things like wikis and c

I stopped installing office on my PCs about 10 years ago, for the first few years replaced with OpenOffice/LibreOffice and more recently things like wikis and confluence and google docs. Its amazing how little it really matters. Most of the stuff I get sent by MS Office users I can interop with. But every parent in the country still thinks their kids need Office installed to do their homework. Occasionally you get people who have gone really over the top on the Word or Powerpoint template so that the thing is totally unreadable on any non-MS platform. I was thinking we need a campaign really - "Keep your document formatting simple" -- no one is impressed with logos in footers or really complicated tables within word or clever animations on powerpoint anymore ... if everyone stuck to the 80% of features that interop well we'd be much better off.