The AW: problem has a lot of more aspects:

	It exposes the lousy and arrogant style in which MS presents
their "software" to the user. To work effectively with these expensive
tools you have to configure them - which is a time-consuming task.

MS presents configuration options very often in a way that you can only
find by knowing much of the internal structure of the programs.

There is a lot of marketing behind certain regional default settings:

MS-Office's macro languages are regionalized:
	Try to run an office-macro, written in a German office version -
which contains "WENN" instead of "if".

Such stupid things bind's the user to certain software.

Frank Lesser, www.lesser-software.com