[zanny]

> fortunately those days are over and they've become mostly irrelevant, but everyone knows that given half a chance they'd do it again...

Everyone I know for the most part types their documents in Microsoft Word on Windows computers. Sure, they got smartphones and tablets for the media consumption and facebook, but they don't even know an alternative "big boy" OS exists. They think Windows == computers. Which I think means MS is anything but irrelevant (no matter how hard I try to stuff opensuse down everyones throat).

[icefox]

Maybe ten years ago I would have said that, but these days it seems they are typing their "documents" into an email composer or a website form (be it a frontend for blogger, wiki, wordpress, etc).

[dsuth]

You mustn't work in an office environment then. The only significant break from MS products I've seen has been Lotus Notes... which was significantly worse than Exchange.

MS Office is the defacto file format for office work, and MS Office on non-Windows platforms (ie. Mac) is so bad as to appear intentionally crippled.

[icefox]

I work for an decent sized international company that not only has a presence on the web it also has factories and all of the complexities that go with that. I would indeed count where I work as an "office environment", I even have the cube, office badge and mailbox to prove it :)