>> Last time I checked, if you want an office suite, you can buy MS Office
>> or...
>>
>> ...uh, yeah, exactly. It's not that MS Office is good enough that nobody
>> will pay to switch. It's that there's nothing to switch *to*. 
> 
> Corel.  OpenOffice.  There are options for many people.

Corel?

Don't forget StarOffice (or whatever the hell the minutely-altered 
edition of OpenOffice is called).

>> (Although there is hope. Give it another 5 years or so, maybe OpenOffice
>> will become good...)
> 
> I use OpenOffice every day.  It's good.

It's OK, and it *is* useful for fixing documents that MS Word is too 
stupid to open. But it's not nearly as effective is MS Office yet. 
Still, 5 years ago it was awful. Maybe it just needs time...

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