He picked the wrong title (Score 5, Insightful)

Had the book been called "Professional OpenOffice Development", this crowd would have fallen all over themselves praising it.

It gets real tiring listening to all the folks that couldn't say a nice word about a MS product if you paid them. Guess what folks... there are millions and millions of people that use Excel in very sophisticated ways. Why? Because it works well enough. With the help of this book, maybe it will work even better.

There are many ways to skin a cat. You haven't got a lock on God's One True Programming Language.