XP and Office 2007 were the last Microsoft products I ever voluntarily purchased. That was only because I could use a staff discount of a friend. I only ever asked Microsoft for support once and that was NOT a good experience. My laptop came installed with Windows 7 basic and Office 10. The first thing I did was uninstall Office 10 and remove it from my laptop. I then installed Open Office and have not looked back. Windows 7 will probably be uninstalled very soon and I will be installing Ubuntu.