M$ BloatWare 97 & 2000 are now obsolete. Sun has acquired StarOffice and is making it available for free. It will soon be open source and cross-platform with Java APIs. Let's hope they succeed where Corel failed. http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice Oh, and it can read/write MS Office file formats, too! Now we need a "Burn All Office 97 CDs Day" in Redmond. :)~ Ed