Things aren't the same now, there isn't as much choice and MS Office is the best on the market.

And the vast majority of people buy MS Office from places that aren't amazon.

No one builds on MS Office as a platform anymore.

For the rest of us however, spending a few hundred dollars on MS Office is not a major deal but still significant.

The work was limited to learning how to use MS Office.

Pretty much sure that MS Office can't do this.

Free access to 100 licensed software packages including MS Office.

I think the "MS Office" bit before the word macro was implied.

MS Office needs a strong competitor because in my mind, it currently doesn't have one.

Schools weren't giving free copies of MS Office to students previously.