Lol, and my point is still that you need to put money into developing better products. Are you willing to say that OpenOffice has improved upon Microsoft Office the same way MS Office has compared to those other examples you gave? Does it have more features? A better interface? Is it more user friendly? They're put a lot of effort into making a product that works almost as well as MS Office and has almost as many features and even added a new thing or two like the PDF distiller, but even so it's hardly an improvement.
You'd have a more convincing argument there if you'd used Firefox as an example instead. Granted, they already had Netscape to work from, but it's still better in many ways than IE. Course, MS is coming out with IE7 at some point, so it'd be interesting to see how they'll respond.
"has (Open Office) improved upon Microsoft Office the same way MS Office has compared to those other examples you gave?"
Certainly not. Cewrtainly doesn't matter. Types a business document just fine (unless you need Word Art). I'm sorry, but Excel doesn't do sqat more than it did five years ago. I use other tools to replace Access.
In short, I'm pretty close to the point where I don't give a lick what anyone pro-Microsoft says, because I have open source alternatives that are converging RAPIDLY!