Bundling extra browsers is not the appropriate way to deal with this. Having the ability to choose which browser to install from an internet repository on (or after - depending on net card availability) installation would make more sense.

At least then you're getting the latest version of the browser, the list can be modified at any time and you're not installing IE initially to download Firefox which is my personal MASSIVE gripe. I don't want that crap on my PC any longer than necessary.

Of course, that leaves the problem of certain web developers being unable to comprehend that I want to use my business reporting tools on a browser OTHER than IE, but only by tearing away the reliance on it will they change their ways.

When I last checked, Outlook is licensed for use with the Exchange CALs and you can obtain/install independantly without MSOffice.

This is the solitary factor preventing me from rolling out Open Office into our business.

We deal with mortgage lenders who supply their own calculation tools in Excel files using macros. The underwriters _need_ to be able to use these. Of course complaining about these companies requiring us to own MSOffice licenses is pointless: "Everyone uses office - get with the program!".

VBA support is a (sadly) significant compatibility problem for OpenOffice in my case.

Other than that I've been using OpenOffice on my PC as a trial for the past six months with no major issues...

This is not in support of the DRM they've imposed but: I would hope that, similar to other games, they release a patch which deactivates the DRM when the product goes out of it's marketable period. I've had a few games like this already.

I installed Spore the other day - but will be downloading the crack for the DRM regardless. That's sad, as I'll count as another statistic to add to rheir 'We need DRM because of this' count.