Are you implying then that *.doc is an exclusive format to write reports, papers, etc; that excel is an exclusive format to write spreadsheets?
I didn't say that, now did I?
Safari is not an exclusive manner to get to the web. Each OS has their own default method to get to the internet.
"Reasonable" was a bad choice of words here. It seems to imply that a person that doesn't know that Windows can't handle ext3 by default is unreasonable. The point of mentioning ext3 partion format is that every modern operating system that I have come across can read ext3 by default EXCEPT for Windows. Either way, it shouldn't be expected for a non-windows computer to be able to open Windows proprietary formats -- can stock Mac OS 10 open excel spreadsheets, yet? Why should a Linux computer be expected to? No computer I have purchased (either through newegg, circuit city, or best buy) has come with an excel reader preinstalled without paying a premium. It has been a couple of years though, so perhaps this has changed. The original complaint was that these things weren't built-in, so the mention of installable applications to fill this void is unneccessary. No need for corrections, lest everything that was ever said on the internet need be historically accurate.
Earlier you said: That's what I was addressing. I didn't say that, now did I? I said that *.doc was not proprietary Windows - thus Microsoft - formats. It belonged to WordPerfect. The rest... you've assumed way too much unfortunately.