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"but if you were me, and grew up on stable Unix, Mac, and mainframe software and then were subjected to the Windows 9x crap and even the more stable XP, you realize that it really isn't better than the stuff you were using already."

Start with the notion that it does all these things on you very own computer in your very own home. There were no word processors available for the mainframes or Unix machines that everyone could use at their desk, office or home. The key to the Microsoft success and the Unix/Mainframe/Apple failures is that they never got their products into the broad middle market that was evolving. The reason why is that they were too expensive and complex and didn't do what people wanted to do themselves.

You folk are so fascinated with the techie achievements that you miss the big dance!

"They will never correct flaws unless there is an identified security issue or it affects their main software. There are flaws in Word for example that still exist in version 2000 that existed in Version 4."

Hard to understand what you mean here. If a flaw doesn't affect "their main software" it is unlikely that it is a flaw, just some characteristic that you may object to. I have Office 2003. What "flaw" do you speak of?
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