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I've sold all of my MSFT stock as I've abandoned hope.  A post entitled MicroSoft Office Ultimate Encouraging Corporate Open Source Switch? just showed up on Do Real Time.

The article discusses the high price tag and over abundance of features that come is this new uber package. 
$650 for a stand-alone.
$500 for an upgrade

I know too many mainstream people using open source now since after all, they're simply using word and excel to type a letter w/bold text and multiply 2 cells together to calculate commissions.