Alas, recognizing that the future was upon us when I installed my Vista upgrade on my Media Center, I ordered Office 2007 Home and Student, and installed it. At first I absolutely hated the "ribbon" as I couldn't find anything. I am a very heavy Excel user, and for an old time number bunny, it was a shock. A few times, I would stop, save the file, fire up my XP machine with Office 2000, open the file and finish. But, now, its almost always 100% Office 2007.

Of course it would have been faster if I didn't have to keep dropping back to Office 2000 at work.

What is the comment about Office 2008? While they may do updates to 2007, may even add features we can't do without, they likely won't change the name, and a complete rewrite any major version change is definitely not in the cards. The only thing I can think of that will have the year 2008 appended is Windows Server 2008 and their Accounting software, and Office on the Mac. Looking back at major revisions '97, 2000, 2003, 2007 - no 1 year cycles. I left out Office XP, as all it did was add activation to 2000.

All Macs, however, can be expanded pretty well with USB and Firewire devices (all Macs come with Firewire ports...some even come with Firewire 800 ports). Without a doubt, however, the Mac Pro is the most "PeeCee" like in that it is a tower where you can easily add cards, drives, memory, etc.