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This was 1979? Who knew he would predict the modern iMac of 25 years later?

Ohhhh No. My first thought on hearing this was "Oh $HIT! They're gonna pull another hotmail & ruin a perfectly good thing in Yahoo!. Look how they screwed up Hotmail-- turned it into a poorly run, mess-o-virus-spreading-code with arbitrary rules and basically blocked by the whole world as a spreader-of-spam. How many of us actually use a hotmail account anymore? For that matter how many of us TRUST Micro$quish with our login info... This would be bad for the web... very bad... good for google, but bad overall. On the other hand it would be Micro$quish's final failure... Like you said, there's no way they could do it right. And that's my 3.5¢ from the fifty-below North Pole... (Alaska)

I find Apple apps like the venerable Appleworks & Pages to be more than sufficient word processing apps. In today's day & age a DTP/Page Layout app IS a Word Processor. It's what has come to be expected over the years. As a teacher I do a lot of plain old writing. I also do a lot of page layout when I create student worksheets/quizzes/informational information. A good example of this is the vertical fraction, as opposed to the horizontal one. Adding a vertical fraction as a word processor is (IMHO) impossible. But add it a a floating text object & everything works out & looks nice. As for DTP & Layout capabilities, originally Appleworks could do it, so Word had to bolt it on later. (after the best Word 5.1a) As a result I prefer Pages to Word because adding floating elements on top of my text is a few steps easier in Pages. (In fact I know it can be done in Word, but I haven't figured it out yet because I feel it should be intuitive and I refuse to read the Word directions.) After writing this I feel I like the Apple Apps because they are not the jack-of-all trades that others try to be (especially Office). They are sleek, limited to what MOST of us USUALLY use and INTUITIVE to figure out. What MOST of us USUALLY use & INTUITIVE. That's the mantra of Apple Apps. Just my 2 1/2¢ John Boyarsky Fairbanks, AK

Because it's just an Apple product and "those dumb other manufacturers haven't learned how to work out the kinks". So sez my Fianceé & I agree!