Until *.docx, *.pptx, *.xlsx... I had an international team of over 140 switched fully to Open Office if not NeoOffice/J on the Mac. We kept getting those files in the last year from recent MS Office 2007 - usually the management types - and had to switch... especially since we knew they wouldn't, we had to.

This whole conversation about Linux gurus, et al is going to be circular.

The problem I have is that there are no true, point for point, alternatives that can slot in, or improve upon (in terms of functionality and file interoperability) MS Office.

And with the focus on opensource being much, much lower levels than end apps, I just don't see anything coming out that sector to actually solve or supersede what exists already.

But... on the flipside of the coin. Having Microsoft involved now makes the Nokia offerings more visible to more potential buyers. And that's a damn good thing... the more mainstream this becomes - in terms of sales - then this iteration of Maemo might actually be embraced deeply by a lot of people.

And that's good.