>> It's an IDE. It edits text files. How hard should that be?
> 
> It does a LOT more than just edit text files.
> 
> Code folding.

Yeah, I guess that's vaguely useful...

> Syntax highlighting.

True. I'm used to using a text editor which does this for me.

> Auto-formatting (it works for me, sorry)

Apparently your coding style matches the hard-coded assumptions of the 
software then. :-P

> IntelliSense

Could be useful - if it actually worked right.

> Debugging

Sometimes quite useful. Depends what the bug is.

>> I'm just saying. Word hasn't changed noticably since 1995 or so. I see 
>> no particular reason to except VS to have changed drastically. (It 
>> probably supports quite a few languages that it didn't back then, mind 
>> you...)
> 
> Actually, I really like the new version of Word (2007) as well.  I've 
> never had any problems with it being unstable, OR with it not doing what 
> I wanted.

I haven't seen Word 2007 yet. Still using Word 2003 here.

> Maybe the problem is user error? ;)

You know what? The Internet abounds with people complaining about Word 
not working right, yet nobody ever seems to complain about Excel or 
Access or PowerPoint or Outlook... Wanna take a guess why that is?

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