[microtherion]

It's a feat of engineering to get Office running, agreed. That it takes a feat of engineering to get a word processor running on a platform with a 1GHz+ processor, half a gig (or more) of RAM, and gigabytes of mass storage, however, is somewhat depressing.

What was even more depressing was to see the resulting product. Apart from the speed issues, which seem to be resolved, should we really be cheered to see this bloated abomination run on yet another platform, to crank out more documents only readable by installing the same bloated abomination on your own machine?

The image that came to my mind on seeing word running in all its desktoppy glory was "a boot stomping on a human face, forever".