I figure that pretty much established the wholesale value of the product.

I consider the product downright dangerous, and have no desire to have it running on my home network.

There is, of course, value in compatibility. China, Brazil, German, other countries and even the US government (and users) would be well served by *simplified*, published standards for reading and writing Windows and Office file formats.

If MS can’t be quickly convinced to provide such a standard, the world should (and I think will) move onto something else and products such as Google Docs, or OpenOffice will serve as transitional software.