Don't jump from side to another. You know what i mean, it's not that we don't have normal working free office - we do have openoffice. As well, i understand that program can cost money, and it's fair enuf, but at lest they can use open standard. For example, i'm linux user, and now because of the college i have to use windows computers at work or computers of my friends just to print some documents ( OO is great but not always display .docs as it should), as well we studing C, but because of Visual Studio they use in college i need something that supports .NET (yes we have mono, but still not the same). So i need not only to buy Microsoft Office or Visual Studio (second the school is giving for free, license for students), but i also need to buy Microsoft Windows itself + use dualboot or virtual machine. i don't have many choices. And it's because some education organizations get the profit from Microsoft, while Microsoft gets the profit from you.