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Max Mansour <ma...@ziplink.net>
> In your answer below, you forgot to mention the main reason.  Most
> software Microsoft produces is quite good, if not great.

Not usually. In most cases it has more bugs - but tons and tons of
features - making it complex to use. Its like adding a 747 dashboard
to your car. Some people like it - people that understand UI realize
that you would only be sacraficing needed visibility and ease of use,
for features that no ones uses or needs. 

Example. MS Apps have a spelling checking that beeps and corrects on
the fly - inside of word. Not too bad. On the Mac I can get one that
works with every program I have (not just MS apps) and takes less
memory. I prefer the universal dictionary...  but even so, many users
I know just wince when their machine beeps at them with the automatic
spelling checkers, and many panic when it "autocorrects" something.
And this is one of MS's more useful features.

The average user can be trained in 1/10th the time on Claris works,
and do 99% as much as they will EVER be able to do in MS-Office, and
quicker. No it doesn't have all the features and functions - but
neither does my car have a built in Bod=E9 - some features aren't
needed, and when they are - they are needed in a better more focused
package than MS delivers anyways.

> Your logic (below) does not provide an answer as to why the #1
selling
> word processor for MacOS is MS Word. 

Because it was first, and was the most pirated package of all times.
Everyone got it, and everyone used it, and everyone trained themselves
on it... and many (most) eventually legitimized it. It was also one of
the first cross platform apps - which made data exchange very easy. 

But there are more contributing reasons, like FUD, marketing, etc...
way way down on the list would be quality or features. And certainly
on the strikes against its usability would be size and featuritis. 
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