At the company I work at, we only have a limited number of Microsoft Office licenses for those higher up in the company, and we don't have the money to buy more. All machines have OpenOffice.org on, and I can't spend an entire day at work without someone complaining that they hate OOo and want MS Office. Usually their reasons are unjustified (quote: "OpenOffice is just shit") but sometimes I get a serious reason (recently, it's rendering and creation of graphs and charts and the creation of complex formula) has been described as terrible.

So, in short, people hate OpenOffice.org whether they have justified reasons or not. Microsoft don't really need to worry, but if they lowered prices, those who deploy OpenOffice.org across the company may reconsider their options.

(also bringing back the pre-2007 menus as an option would be nice as I've had a huge number of complaints about that)

He may be a Jedi, but he has a point. Equality my arse.

I heard that at least one of the Microsoft stores will be directly next door to an Apple store. I can't remember which one though, but I believe it's true. In other news, I still don't quite get what a Microsoft store will sell. So there'll be Zunes, Xbox, Windows 7, Office, Flight Simulator and own branded mice and keyboards......Do they sell anything else? Oh yeah and Microsoft Bob (such an awesome piece of software)

Some of us simply can't use torrent services because of the ISP we use. Admittedly, last week, torrents started working, but there's no way I'm downloading anything illegal through torrents because ISP's track what you're downloading and then rage. HTTP downloads through Rapidshare/Megaupload/etc, not so much. Plus, I have to share if I want to torrent. I'm not a communist, so I don't share.

As much as I'd like to mark you as flamebait, you actually have a point. Until the Palm Pre was announced, I was under the impression that Palm (as a company) had gone under. When looking to replace my faithful HP iPAQ h5550 PDA (god that was an awesome PDA) I asked around in the electronics shops about a palm device, the majority thought they didn't exist any more. So it's nice to see they've been working on something over the past few years (unlike the Duke Nukem Forever guys).

How come everyone I know (most of whom are not particularly tech savvy) all know what the hard drive. Maybe it's an American thing...

I've tried bluetooth mice, and there's a bit too much lag on it for me. Also, bluetooth drains batteries a hell of a lot more than RF wireless. I have an iMac and I was fine with the generic wired mouse for a while, but 4 buttons wasn't enough for me. So I got the Logitech "Wireless Desktop for Mac". Keyboard has lasted me 6 months with the same batteries, while mouse (with 8 buttons) lasts about 2 months at a time with 2 AA batteries. I got it for £50 on Amazon (same price as JUST the Wireless Mighty Mouse).

I have a media player, an internet browser, an IM client AND my e-mail application open AT THE SAME TIME!!!!

I'M A POWER USER!!!!!!!!

Who the hell is Matt Smith? Seriously, I've never heard of him!