> No one has yet to name any service or program that Microsoft offers that > someone else does not do better. Someone mentioned Developer's Studio. > For commercial compilers I preferred Watcom's IDE, another ruined > Microsoft competitor. Soon the KDE stuff will be better.
I am going to catch a lot of flack for this, but I'm a sucker so here goes anyway: Microsoft Office, and in particular, Word. Let's use the definition that to be "better" (a subjective term) the program has to offer the most useful features and successful implementation of those features. I use a word processor much more than the average Joe User because of my career. While I'm no expert, I do think that I have more "real" experience in word processors than most, and in my experience there is no open source word processor that can compete feature-by-feature with Word. A great example of a feature that Word does better than most is spelling and grammar checking. Don't get me wrong now. I like OpenOffice and even StarOffice. They're great. But pound for pound Word is a more powerful and comprehensive word processor, and it can help you work faster if you find yourself in it often enough. On the purely commercial front, Word Perfect Office Standard gives Microsoft Office Standard a run for its money.
