WHIMPY. They should've mentioned StarOffice! (Score 1)

Maybe the reason Microsoft didn't mention Star Office was because it seems to be a complete, drop-in replacement for MS Office, and then some!

It even has its own implementation of a very Visual-Basic'ish scripting language built in. It's functionality may be so close to that of the MS products that it may even be vulnerable to Word macro viri!

Licensing was ridiculously cheap, and even FREE for personal use. I figure that's why Microsoft chose to mention other, less impressive products.

Did I mention that Star Office runs on just about any platform? Win9x/NT, Linux, Solaris, MacOS, and even Java.

I think it's the closest thing to knocking MS off the office desktop.