The fact is this: If you are not tickled rosy red over such delights as format, standards and meta-information, then you do NOT have a soul

Josh: Thanks for the reply. I am still looking to pull the trigger on a computer, and I just can't decide whether or not to get the XP Pro Office 2003 suite. There are sure a lot of changes taking place in the way documents are being recorded into digital form, and as the document opens up into multiple levels of format, - so to will the human's conception of a document -

where our grandfather'c could never dream of storing unlimited pages of text on a device, we are not able to fathom the future of "writing"

As this scuffle plays out between Open Source Office Productivity vs. MS , it should be interesting.... more later... I am busy ...... boo-hooo
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