Just Received This from Bigpond

[Daddles]

MS office is overated, over priced and full of bugs....if you can avoid using it, do so

That's just a stupid comment. The pricing is questionable perhaps - any production software is expensive but maybe that's a fair call. However, overated and full of bugs? Methinks you aren't using the later versions. Office 98 still had some hangups. 95 was a nightmare. But I've been using Office 2000 since (before) it came out (don't ask) and it has yet to give me a problem, even on my Pentium 100 laptop running Win95. Perhaps I don't push it very hard except in document size, but my sister does use a broad selection of the bells and whistles and reports no problems either. As stated earlier, I have used over ten different word processors and while none have been perfect, Word still comes out on top for me.

No, this isn't an ad for Office, but to make comments like 'avoid using it' shows either collossal ignorance or collossal bias. Perhaps old-picker would like to explain which.

Richard

[Barry_White]

I've been using Office 2003 for about 18 months. I think that it is very good and it has even more tricks and treats over 2000. Word is fantastic and I use Publisher, Excel, Access and Powerpoint and believe the improvements in all of them make them a pleasure to use.

I have used Office 95, 97, 2002 and 2003 and they do make big changes in the upgrades.

[kiwigeo]

Well, you know there is a Unix based platform that "only" has 8% has a very smug and satisfied bunch of customers.

We feel warm inside whenever these sorts of things crop up, and yes we are running OSX on 6 year old machines without any trouble. (They run too slow to get into trouble, )

Running OSX on a 6 year old Mac....not a problem, Try running Windows XP on a 6 year old PC....