Now if only MS and Google could patch things up and MS get google services on MS Phone 10.

Yeah I know, don't hold my breath.

Downloading mine now.

@Reid-Cooper said:

The thing that I found to be most interesting was that Word started as a UNIX product, on Xenix, and was only later ported to DOS.

I had no idea. I worked on Xenix circa 1997.

@Carnival-Boy said:

But it's totally unmanageable for anything other than tiny environments. To the degree that I would say the low cost version is no longer available.

Yeah, If only that were true, that's it no longer available. The powers that be know they exist because they see it in the store 'Office Home Business Edition'

The concept to watch out for is "investing in technical debt".

@Katie said:

Agree with @scottalanmiller - don't bring it up unless you can prove it.

I agree....find the proof first. I would suggest the genuine advantage step first. Then maybe you could put the product key in a google search? Maybe it will come up?

@Nara said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Office 2013 is slower. It just is. You have moved from a Windows native app to a web app. They don't tell you this anywhere but look closely. Office 2013 is actually running in a frameless browser.

Are you sure on that? I just took a stroll through my office directory and found all the appropriate DLL files and such that would go along with a regular program. Outlook still has all the native quirks, features, and errors that wouldn't be part of a web app.

The interface is running in the browser. It still has some hooks because lots of stuff needs the DLLs. But the part that you see is all in a frameless browser. Lots of applications run this way, it is a lot of Microsoft's vision for the future and makes sense for portability and hostability.

Only if the have Office 365 accounts. Which we do but it isn't the same.