The only thing I personally don't like about Microsoft products is that they keep feeling the need to add new useless stuff to them, and intergrate all of the together. I still do with word what I did with WP51 years ago. It is no longer a Word Processor, it's closer to one of those old DTP packages from the late 80's.
I prefer to use WordPad for writing documents, it's smaller, faster and gosh, everyone with Windows can read the resulting document. Unlike ppl who send out Excel and Word documents in mail and expect my father to be able to read them on him home computer wihtout the expensive MS Office on it (and with no room for it either [:P]).
Drak