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It's like a *nix geek saying windows sucks because Win95 was just a GUI on top of another OS.

I never said Open Office sucks. What I did say was most power users I know prefer MS Office. It does not surprise me, however, that MS Office would have more features since they spend a ton of money on it and Open Office is all open source support. From the reviews I have read, it is mainly trying to keep up with MS and its whole goal is to undermine MS Office.

I do occasionally look at the latest comparisons between the two but have been using MS Office since I moved to Excel from Lotus and Word from WordPerfect.

The bottom line is however, is that if you are paying someone 6 figures and he/she wants MS Office, you would be nuts not to give it to him/her.

[ShadowAce]

I never said Open Office sucks.

I know you didn't. I apologize for not being more clear--or for choosing an imperfect analogy. I was just trying to illustrate how useless out-of-date knowledge is.

The bottom line is however, is that if you are paying someone 6 figures and he/she wants MS Office, you would be nuts not to give it to him/her.

It would depend on what they want to do with it. WP and spreadsheets don't require a $500 piece of software. If s/he is worth six figures, then they are capable enough to learn a slightly different interface from MS 2007 in order to write a memo or produce a presentation.