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Originally Posted by weesteev
Haha nice try Chris, some people do actually enjoy using Microsoft Office... and even use it in their work as well. This question isnt so much aimed at personal use, but general use. Some users may encounter this in their work already.
The reason I ask is how visually different the product is to previous versions, Office 2007 tried to mix things up with the "ribbon" bar which wasnt very user friendly, now in 2010 its fully customizeable which is certainly an improvement... and we have 64 bit versions of the full suite now (including Visio which you dont get with OpenOffice, or a native 64 bit OpenOffice suite either for that matter).
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Horses for courses really. Many people do work with MS Office in their offices, of course, but even there, for most people the more arcane aspects of it are irrelevant. I am quite certain that the vast majority of people don't know whether the PC under their desk is 64bit. I also reckon the majority of them don't even know what 64bit means. And for most of them, their PC requirements are such that 64bit is unnecessary. Visio, also, is pretty specialised software and AFAIK is not found in MS Office bundles, even though it is branded as part of Office.
Then of course you have the home users ... who, once again, are unlikely to have any need of any of the functions of MS Office that might justify the £100+ price tag. The only things that are putting Office in home users' hands are OEM pre-installs and high brand awareness. But I maintain that the vast majority of home users are wasting their money if they actually go out and buy Office, and that businesses are wasting vast amounts of cash on volume licences that are far larger than they actually need to be.