And when you turn around and sell that car, you can sell the leather seats, fancy paint job, cruise control, etc. as well. Not so with most forms of DLC; those are usually tied into an account in some way making them impossible to resell.
Or they could have made the default option for Personalized Menus 'off' for Office XP/2003. None of this 'word processor trying to be smarter than you' stuff-- I prefer my menu layouts to be deterministic, thank you.
Why? He's not saying anything nasty about his publishers.
As the trials of life continue to take their toll, remember that there is always a future in Computer Maintenance. -- National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"