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I would hope not -- Open Office!
That is if the primary job of the employee involves using office tools to communicate.
Our users find any clutter at all to be confusing and we hear about it! Why on earth would I pay to permit third party advertising (which would mean allowing third party active x activity) on my network? For a very low cost, I can utilize open source.

Personally, I use Open Office at home and in some ways prefer it to MS Windows. At least I do not have to open a new app to create a different type of doc. I can open the program and choose to create a document, HTML, presenation (like PPT) or spreadsheet. Each content type is available via the same application interface. This seems like a very basic item that MS has ignored. There are ways in which the OpenOffice is not quite as powerful -- but few people use MS word to its fullest power anyway.
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